Gathering dust: irregularity of flea markets and the pandemic are pushing book lovers online

With flea markets for old books in the city facing an existential crisis,  online platforms are providing an alternative to the bibliophile Delhi had a flourishing economy of rare old books that reached the bibliophiles at cheap prices and were sold from most innocuous places—like a pile on a footpath. The flea markets of old […]

Rare Booknook

The store ‘Chapter 101’ is as rare in today’s world as the books it holds, bought from unlikely places by a collector who doesn’t mind if you don’t buy anything. Imagine going shopping in a glitzy mall, stepping into shiny glass showrooms and then suddenly coming across a heavy wooden door which says ‘Chapter 101’. […]