Oxford Bookstore and Cha Bar open in Hyderabad

Oxford Bookstore is India’s leading bookstore chain and an iconic destination for book lovers offering a contemporary, multidimensional interactive experience with a unique product mix of books, music, gifts; stationery items and Cha Bar, an adjoining tea café’. Oxford Bookstore is the only completely integrated online offline bookstore in the country with access to 6 million titles worldwide. Its website is only one of its kind, hosted out of India and provides special online shopping benefits. At present, there are stores across the country including in all metros Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore. The Heritage Store in Kolkata established in 1920 enjoys near iconic status and steps into its ninth decade in 2011. The legendary store is an institution in itself, an intrinsic part of Kolkata's cultural and literary landscape. With its enviable venue and ambience, it has had the distinction of hosting world class writers such as William Dalrymple, Amitav Ghosh, Kiran Desai, Amit Chaudhuri, Shashi Tharoor as well as the iconic Bengali writers Sunil Gangopadhyay, Mahasweta Devi, Nabaneeta Devsen, Mani Shankar Mukherjee, and Nobel and Booker Prize winners Sir V.S. Naipaul, Gunter Grass and Salman Rushdie. Oxford Junior, the first dedicated bookstore for children in India is located on Park Street, Kolkata besides the Heritage Oxford Store. Oxford Bookstore is part of the Apeejay Surrendra Group.