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How a tiny Delhi bookstore helped Indians around the country keep reading during coronavirus

How a tiny Delhi bookstore helped Indians around the country keep reading during coronavirus

As one walks into The Bookshop, a quaint, well, bookshop in the tony neighbourhood of Delhi’s Jor Bagh, the parallels between the popular Hollywood rom-com become more obvious. The Bookshop, like Ryan’s fictional The Shop Around The Corner, is an old establishment, run more as a family set-up even though those who work there are not related by blood. In a twist to the small businesses plot, this Delhi store is seeing success even as Covid-19 rages on in India.