Tucked in the leafy lane of Bandra’s D’Monte Park Road is an unassuming, ground-floor space that, when you enter, will have footwear strewn near the short flight of stairs leading to it.

Growing up in the suburb of Chembur, a library was a tiny nook where we went to borrow Enid Blyton titles. That’s it. The next access to books was when I grew up and we went to branded stores where you could read or browse if you wanted to.