Generations have woke up for Light "Summer or Winter Our service remains the Same"

Chennai,Triplicane is one of the famous historic place not only for its rich history of temples and mosque’s, but there are other manic that keeps  your finger crossed.  The sea coast of marina wind straight from Kannaki statue, one can find huge number of books on the platform sites, where hawkers would shout saying 20 and 30once the time gets four in the evening. The book stall owners have their own committee called “Thiruvallicani Bharathi Sallai Palaya Putthaga Viyabarigal Sangam” which deals about their problems relating to safeguard their rights of selling books on the street.

     When we spoke to a leader of the committee Anbumani who is 50 years old stated that, there are 33 bookstalls under Triplicane association, we sale books related to education, medical and general knowledge. Many of them who take up and run bookstalls are continuing from their fathers and forefathers. When we spoke to the other friend Pandiyan 52years old, who has been in to this business, since from his childhood, he had an education till his 8th grade, then after he worked at ‘Mohan Publication’ in the same street. Later, he had started his own bookstall. He laughed saying at the time when I started the book stall, there were only a number of eight book stalls in the street and now the number has gone up due to the new form of education in the city. Our target audience are not only students but the entire public, especially the rich ones try to get a English novels from our stalls rather than in the branded shops since we often give for less amount, fortunately this doesn’t affect us, because we have a direct dealers and old book whole sellers in the city, I have a dealer at Tambaram likewise every shopkeepers would have a conduct to get books for less amount. It is an interesting buzz that keeps you wonder; here is a person named Ashok, 32 year old guy, who has only studied 6th grade. He dropped his studies when his father Mohan died and soon after, he took up his father work and being a bread winner of his family he feeds all six including his wife, children and mother.

     He says that only during raining season the business seems to be dull, sometimes we close our stalls but during the month of June and July, we get a decent amount of good income, since it is a time of re-opening of colleges and schools. I get all these collection of books from my customers, who buy from me and once, they complete their reading often they return to me back. So I maintain favourable relationships and keep having related books especially for engineering studies. Every book stalls are busy in the evening and crowded with good number of customers though there are publication houses, which have book shops but our business are not disturbed by their competition but as whole at the end of the day we are 'OK' with what we get, says Ashok the young seller.