‘Bengaluru’s bookstores bring people a little closer to calling this city their own’

Sridevi Nayak’s relation with The Bookworm bookstore connected Church Street began astir 12 years ago, erstwhile she moved from her hometown, Udipi, to Bengaluru. Adapting to a caller spot was hard, recalls the laminitis of Just One More Page Book Club, which regularly holds meetings astatine The Bookworm. “I was trying to grapple with wherever I was and what I was doing there,” she says.

And, since she yet had “adult money” for the archetypal clip successful her life, she coped by visiting the store regularly to bargain books and it became much than conscionable a bookstore. “What started arsenic a narration betwixt a lawsuit and a idiosyncratic selling the books became precise special,” says Sridevi, recalling however good she was treated each clip she entered the store. “Whenever I person felt uncomfortable, I person gone to Bookworm and recovered solace there.”