Founded by the iconic bookseller, the late Padmashri T. N. Shanbhag, Strand Book Stall is Bombayana at is best.. Everyone waits for the annual sale, when you can get treasures for as little as 20 per cent of the original price. Mr Shanbhag, God rest his soul, believed that books were meant to be read, and if you couldn’t afford the price, he was more than willing to give you an additional discount over and above the one that everyone got as a matter of course.. In 1951, he was one of the few booksellers in the country to order 1,000 copies of Boris Pasternak’s Dr Zhivago. Courageous, committed and generous, his spirit continues to imbue the establishment.