Rachna Books is an award winning, independent bookshop in Gangtok, Sikkim.
Our Publications
Rachna Books made a foray into publishing formally under our own banner in 2019 as a part of celebrations commemorating our 40 years in the book-trade. Several books under the imprint “Karuna Devi Smarak Dharmarth Guthi” have been published earlier.
Partners-in-crime
Café Fiction®
Early on, Raman’s 2pm tea break gained popularity and anyone who happened to be at the present would have to take charge of the bookshop while Raman, known popularly as ‘Bookman’, went up to his kitchen to prepare tea for all. Consequently, Café Fiction® was born out of this routine in 2012. Our café has since become a melting pot for exchange of ideas. We frequently listed among the top book cafés across the subcontinent in the print media, travel websites and blogs.
Bookman’s Bed and Breakfast
To meet pressure of keeping the bookshop afloat, Raman formally opened a part of his home as a bed and breakfast, one floor above the bookshop and named it Bookman’s Bed and Breakfast. Operational since 2014, this top-rated three room property has become a much sought after stay option for writers, artists, musicians, scholars and the discerning travellers looking for quiet and comfortable stay and a rich, literary escape among books.
The bookshop has a thousand books,
All colors, hues, and tinges,
And every cover is a door
That turns on magic hinges.
Nancy Byrd Turner