KARACHI: Khushwant Singh once wrote that rather than restaurants and cinema houses, the ultimate litmus test of a town's sophistication is the number of bookshops it has, and the kind of books they stock. Stores that cater to students selling school and college textbooks do not count. It is others that have books on history, poetry, fiction, philosophy, etc.
Bookshops are wonderful places - people standing there, letting their eyes drift over shelves, while that imaginary bookshop magic
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