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City List – The 20 Lovely Shop Assistants of The Book Shop in Jorbagh

City List – The 20 Lovely Shop Assistants of The Book Shop in Jorbagh

June 25, 2016 · by The Delhi Walla · in Delhi by List

You are remembered.

[Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi]

A nice bookstore is cherished not only for its collection of books and its charming owners, but also for its friendly shop assistants. Since the time it was founded by late KD Singh in 1970, The Book Shop in Delhi’s Jorbagh has been shaped by a number of much-loved people, including Mr Singh’s wife, Nini, and her business partner, the lovely Sonal Narain, and longtime doorman, the quietly helpful Sohan Singh. All three of them are seen daily in the shop.

But a place is more than what it is at the moment. The Delhi Walla gives you a list of all the 20 shop assistants who manned The Book Shop–including in its now-extinct outlet in Khan Market–at one time or the other.

*Source: the book shop

1. Aditya B.

2. Anita Handa

3. Ashutosh Tripathi

4. Gaurika Sajdeh

5. Gunjan Bahadur

6. Harminder

7. Juhi

8. Kalpana

9. Leela Samson

10. Naman Govil

11. Naresh Khanna

12. Nasreen Qadri

13. Neelu

14. Prashansa Taneja

15. Rachna Singh Davidar

16. Radhika Singh

17. Shagun

18. Shubhashri Chaudhry

19. Sugandh Chaturvedi

20. Umang Kumar

The faces I saw

1. (Sugandh Chaturvedi)

2. Ashutosh Tripathi

3. Naman Govil

4. Prashansa Taneja

5. Sohan Singh

6. Sonal Narain

7. Nini KD Singh

8. (KD Singh, between Alan Bennett and Frances Woodsford)

9. (Next?)

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2 Responses

Aditya · June 26, 2016 at 18:16:30 · →

Yippee… I made the list 🙂

Benefits of one’s initials to be on the top of it… (the list)…

Thanks for chronicling the history of the bookshop as always!

Aditya Bee
City Moment – The New Face at The Book Shop, Jorbagh Market – The Delhi Walla · July 8, 2016 at 10:45:56 · →

[…] Chaturvedi replaces Ashutosh Tripathi, who replaced Sugandh Chaturvedi, who replaced… well, click here to see the complete list of the store’s former […]

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