Capital Book Depot

The other veteran of the Sector 17 plaza, named in the same breath as The English Book Shop whenever the city lists its original literary landmarks. The difference is scale: shelves run past a hundred thousand titles across practically every subject, stacked high enough that looking for one thing usually ends with three. A small coffee corner inside makes lingering the intention rather than the accident. Worth an hour if you want India-themed reading before the next leg of the trip.

A hundred thousand titles and a coffee corner: the city's longest browse