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Internet too, sometimes when there only a few customers, I log on yahoo
messenger to chat with Alpana. Alpana is my elder sister; she is married.
Ammi is the one proudest about the store, I brought her to see it on a
Monday (the day I’m off) and she was so impressed that she told everyone in our
building, even the milkman, about it. The next day she was at the Krishna
temple, breaking a coconut in my name. Ammi’s also happy since I finally
agreed to carry a dabba, because the khaoo gully is too far from here — I can’t
step out and eat the nukkad dosa or have the sandwich wallah deliver the grilled
cheese inside anymore. Instead, I eat home‐cooked food in the lunch area that
has a microwave and a table with oily stains and crusty circles left behind by
soda bottles. We even have a small fridge now where I keep my lassi bottle.
Here we get a lot of customers, much more than Vishwa, but I am not sure
if they only come to read or really buy — the franchisee lady (the one from
Crosswords head office, in charge of franchising) says customers just don’t come
to buy books if they wanted to do that wouldn’t they just go and buy one from
the Princess street hawkers, from the millions of cheap, pirated paperback books,
she asks, they come to unwind, to relax, to enjoy some peace of mind, so its not
just buying it’s an EXPERIENCE she says, to Deven Sir (why does he have to nod
his head so fast?). And then she does this grand wave of hand sweeping across
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