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them come here, to Crosswords. They say its too far and what with all the
rickshaw fares hiking up and all, it is expensive to come all the way to
Lokhandwala. But Shetty sir who sometimes comes to our new store says that
they don’t come because this A/C and soft lights, Kenny G music and all that, itʹs
all too hi‐fi, it unsettles them and makes them feel uncomfortable and very
conscious like. And I understand Shetty sir because a few months back, even I
wouldn’t have stepped into this kind of store, much less listened to Kenny G.
Whatever our old customers say, one thing they have to agree — our new
store looks real classy, ekdum jhakkas! We have vacuumed cleaned floors and
real plants at the end of book cases and small stools for the customers and
computers that even tell you which books we have in stock and which we don’t
so now I take the customers to the book racks only if I see the book on my
computer screen, otherwise I just tell them with as much certainty like those
women on customer service lines of credit card companies, Mr. Sharma I’m sorry
we do not have the book you are looking for in stock but I can order it.
I can
even surf the Net now from my computer. Honestly, it’s not that I really need
the computer, because without it at Vishwa, I have helped some most interesting
people: a Reiki healer, the master chef of Oberoi and even a Buddhist monk
looking for the ‘Book of Happiness’ by Dalai Lama, find their books. I like the
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