The Other India Bookstore (OIB) at Mapusa in Goa is unlike any other bookshop. Lined with books from the floor till the ceiling, it houses unheard of books. This well-curated bookstore is the brainchild of Claude and Norma Alvares, a very reputed environment activist couple in Goa. It was started in 1986 with the intention of selling books from the global South — Asia, Africa and Latin America — and to develop India’s intellectual culture, rather than blindly follow the West.
“The book trade was dominated by publishers from the West and only their books were. . .