Fact becomes fiction: Closure of Fact & Fiction book store in South Delhi

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Ajit Vikram Singh has nurtured his bookstore ‘Fact and Fiction’ for 30 long years. 'Fact and Fiction', a quaint store nestled in the Basant Lok market in Vasant Vihar here was once always packed with bookworms who were drawn to its eclecticism. Ranging from children's books, classics, to translations the store was the go-to for people looking for new arrivals as well as rare books. The shop stocks itself with books on literary fiction, religion, cinema and philosophy besides those on travel, music, science, history, wild life, cookery, ecology and economics besides poetry. "The world has changed and so have people. They are not many people coming to the shop these days as was the case a few years ago. And as most of the book buyers have shifted to e-commerce profits of bookshops have gone