Kashmiri bookshop makes entry in Limca Book of Records

Press Trust of India  |  Srinagar 

A Kashmiri bookshop, housing over 80,000 books, has found an entry in the Book of Records, 2018. Gulshan Books, a leading publishing house in the valley which runs a bookshop-cum-cafe on Nehru Park in the middle of Dal Lake, has been featured in the new edition of the book. Under the title, "Only bookshop-library on a lake", the Book of writes "Gulshan Books, a bookshop set up in May 2016, has a reading room, a cafe, and over 80,000 books. "The bookshop can be reached by a shikara ride and the owner of the shop, Sheikh (46), offers free shikara rides to people keen to read books on and its literature". Ajaz said he felt proud of the entry and "It has come as a surprise".

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First Published: Sat, January 20 2018. 21:00 IST