Suleman had started his passion project in 1953 in the foyer of the family-owned Botawala Chambers on Sir Pherozeshah Mehta Road, Fort. Soon, the store became the haunt of bibliophiles looking for rare, unusual reads. The most purchased were the DC and Dell comics, American and British magazines, the romances of Mills & Boon and popular pulp fiction, with James Hadley Chase and Surender Mohan Pathak’s books topping the list.
