Mumbai: Free library comes up at Girgaon Chowpatty's Nana Nani Park

Updated On: 05 January, 2024 05:23 AM IST | Mumbai | Hemal Ashar

Books find an unlikely though welcome nook at a Girgaon Chowpatty garden

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The free library at Girgaon Chowpatty’s Nana Nani Park. Pics/Sameer Markande

Girgaon Chowpatty’s Nana Nani Park, older neighbour to the viewing gallery and opposite the Orient Club, has just sprouted a new facility for the silver-haired set. A free library has opened on the park’s premises. The books, donated by citizens, are stored in a cupboard by a foundation working in the space of senior care. Visitors to the park can browse, read, and even take the books home promising to return them in good faith. The facility was ‘inaugurated’ on Tuesday evening at the park. This is a recreation space for senior citizens. Started in 1999, the space gives a view of the chowpatty sands and the sea.

Peace nook

“People here are into meditation” explained park manager Vasudev Meherkar, who was at the garden gate on Tuesday evening. “They find the relative silence, the scenery extremely soothing. Do not dismiss these old people as relatively immobile,” he said with a laugh. “Many of them jog here, some do on-the-spot jogging, looking out to the sea. I think this place itself calms the mind. A library should work well. We need some Gujarati books, many who visit here are Gujaratis,” he added.

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