College Street – Calcutta

 

College Street in Calcutta, India, is famous for its small and big bookstores. It is also known with the nick mane of Boi Para (Colony of Books).

Many publishers are based there, and book stalls stretch for half a mile along it”, with pamphlets, paperbacks, out-of-print editions and all kinds of publications in many languages spilling over onto the road. Source: theguardian.com – Photograph: Pradipta Basu

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