The life of a bookshop. [Text and photos by Mayank Austen Soofi] It was just another morning in March when bookshop owner Narendra Kumar Chowdhary woke up at his home in Vasant Kunj. Minutes later he died of a cardiac arrest. He was 65. It was the first time since its founding in 1950 that Piccadilly Book Stall in Central Delhi’s Shankar Market remained closed for a long, long time. The store’s longtime assistant, Chandrashekhar, too went away to his home in Nepal. Two months later in May, Mr Chowdhary’s wife Raina finally turned her thoughts towards the bookshop. Chandrashekhar too had returned by then. Together they re-launched the store, which has the capital’s best collection of spirituality, running the gamut from commentaries