A little store calle Mecca! Make your pilgrimage today

'Mecca Lifestyle', is a store I discovered on one of my jaunts to Commercial street. Tukled away in one of the gallis of this huge market. This is an absolute delight. Delicately named, the shop carries flavours of an exotic world, in the small knick knacks it sells & above all because of the small but lovely collection of second hand books that it has. The shop is tiny but extremely charming. Check it out!

Beautifully coloured cups, printed motifs on saucers & little kettles will steal your heart away

True to its' name, the store exhibits accesories that have an Arabian touch to them. Coloured glassed, little pots and pans, flower vase's & so many other knick knacks..an absolute delight.

The little shop has plenty of the classics like 'Gone with the Wind'..types. Good for those who like Romantic novels, Daniel Steele, Mills & Boons, John Grisham, etc..they books are in good shape. But what really STRUCK me about the store & why it features here is the enviable collection of original Enid Blyton books that have all but dissapeared form the book stores today and even if they are, they are so costly it really makes you see red! Don't expect great quality here..but yes you can expect all your Secret Seven, 'Famous Fives', 'Hardy Boys', 'Malory Towers', 'Naughtiest Girl in School' series etc. What an absolute delight!! was transported back to the childhood days and you know what the little scribbles of the children who had read these books, a face here, a cartoon there..somehow made the books feel like they had been well loved, well read & lovingly parted with..not just thrown away into some dusty corner. I brought a huge bundle for my daughter & ended up reading 4 comics on the way :)

The shop sells some lovely children's magazines like MAD, Asterisk's, Tintin, Tinkle, Amar Chitra Katha, etty & Veronica( though I am of the traditional mould & don't fancy kids reading them). Like all other books, the magazines are a mix of new as well as old. The old ones ( mostly bound editions of two ot thre...even four at times come at a price of Rs 60, I haggled got it less for ten bucks less....stupid of me told him about thhis post later or might just have got a better discount ;) ..) Old Tintin's are around 225 while the new ones are in the range of Rs 300. Besides the reading, they add so much colour to the little shop. I could spend hours just leafing through them.