In the midst of the pandemic, a small business which had closed down sprang back to life. Eureka, the iconic bookstore for children in India, had downed its shutters in 2014, hard-hit by e-commerce and high rentals.
Eureka has now reopened inside CMYK, a well-known chain of bookstores in South Delhi’s Greater Kailash-II.
“High rentals combined with a drop in sales forced us to close at that time,” recalls Venkatesh Swamy, who started the bookstore with Swati Roy in 2003.
Swamy and Roy went on to found Bookaroo, the famed. . .
