An old business gets a new form to revive Kathmandu’s reading culture

Amir Raj Thapa was in his school when he used to go to different bookstores to buy the then popular Wave magazine . One of the stores he visited was Anu Book Store in Lagankhel, Lalitpur. But, when he flipped through the magazines, he had never thought that one day he would be on the other side of the counter and running the very shop, some 25 years later.

Thapa is today the curator of Coffee at Anu Books , a wing of Anu Books, located in Satdobato, Lalitpur. He has been instrumental in reimagining and reshaping the way the book shop operates today. But, behind his ideas formulating and Anu Books’ history of over 35 years now and the manifestation of his ideas for the future.