From printed floral handkerchiefs, fake sunglasses, posters to fruit vendors and dense traffic, the stretch of Koti Main Road is one of the busiest areas of the city. While on one side the pedestrians have to carefully tiptoe to avoid the vendors on the pavement and the numerous book shops that line the road, the other side is an empty stretch of road, where men occasionally pause to answer nature's call. As the lip smacking aroma of Gokul Chat crawls through the nook and corner of every street, the smell of books is something that never fades away either. Evening hours usually sees college students at Gokul Chat after a session of haggling and friendly banter.

The area usually called a Hub of Books, stocks up rows of book stalls selling old and new books. From properly built shops to vendors selling books under a tree or on the pavement, you will find all and different kinds of books at this centre. Inspite of heavy traffic and no proper allocation to parking, students prefer to buy all their books at one place.

Koti is un doubtfully the most preferred destination for all kinds of books. The book stalls and shops have everything from fiction, non-fiction, language, mythology, education and competition based books. In fact, the business model where the books were given for rent stands as the USP of these shops.

With students preferring to source their study materials online, sales of books have  also gone down. According to vendors students nowadays only buy low priced all- in-ones, old questions papers or books to prepare for the national level competitive exams.

Heavy discounts, one stop shop for all varieties of books. Easy to access location have given many Entrepreneurs work and money. If proper governance is implemented, the indiscipline and nostalgic memories attached to this part of hyderabad will only add flavour to shop around the streets of koti.