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Coffee below, books above

Before you enter Baharisons Booksellers, you have to encounter Blue Tokai. It’s a lovely café, with lovely crowd pouring in. On the floor above the structure on Road no. 36 is Baharisons, replete with more than five lakh books. The bookshelves are spread over in small rooms of the floor. Alright, let us face the truth. The bookstore is also another bookstore, of course with a larger collection of books that found in most stores, what brings Baharisons more credibility from other bookstores is that it is some 73 years old brand, with its parent store in Delhi. Established by Balraj Bahari Malhotra in 1953, the bookstore must be lauded for standing the test of time, especially since the advent of online book-buying avenues. On the occasion of the store's anniversary, Balraj Bahri’s son wrote a book ‘Chronicles of a Bookshop’ which documents the journey of the Baharisons Booksellers.

Besides, of course, housing books, the store also hosts book release functions and other interactive sessions. One amenity that deserves to be mentioned before signing off is that the café downstairs, which is where the restrooms are, includes a restroom with ‘gender-neutral’ written on it.