"A book is a garden you can carry in your pocket" - Arabian proverb

Late Sh. N.D. Pahuja


                       We understand exactly what is being meant in the above statement. Since 1956, we have been in the ‘business of books’. We are based out of Chandigarh - ‘The City Beautiful’. It was in the summer of 1956, when our father Late Sh. Naranjan Dev Pahuja, who migrated from Pakistan after the partition, came to Chandigarh - looking for a livelihood. The city was in its infant stages at that time, trying to grow to become the mega-city it is today. Always appreciating that education is an essential part of the civilized world and with Chandigarh being made the capital of Punjab; he decided to enter into book trade. As the quantum of business in Chandigarh was not so big at that time, he started two ventures out of one establishment in Sector 22 Chandigarh –


1. University Book Depot, with a slogan “Knowledge from Books, Books from Us”
2. Mohindra Capital Publishers, with a slogan “In Service of Education”

                       By 1971, he had shifted the base to Sector 17 – an upcoming business centre.By year 1985, Chandigarh became synonymous with education. A number of prestigious educational institutions catering to the varied academic needs of a vast majority of students had sprung in the city. With the growth of education industry reaching a new high in Chandigarh, a new outlet was established in 1985 by ND Pahuja’s eldest son Mohinder Kumar Pahuja with the name of "Mohindra Book Depot" in Sector 31 to give an easy access to the developing southern sectors of the city beautiful.

                       In the year 1998, his second son Surinder Kumar Pahuja took charge of "Mohindra Capital Publishers" and got into publishing as a full time business activity. The focus of this business group had always been the needs of the student community. We always preferred to publish those books for which no or very less material was available in the market. In publishing business, we also focused on needs of students for distance education.

                       In the year 2005, we opened one more retail outlet - Mohindra’s The Book Shelf, in Sector 32 and started a mail-order service with the name and style of "MCP Book Zone" located in Industrial Area, Chandigarh.

                       Information Technology has made a great impact on present day life, and enabled this world to grow at a faster pace. This has been the inspiration for us to enable our core business with the latest in IT and at the same time, use IT to reach to more people and community in most efficient ways to serve them better. This portal has been the result of this endeavor. We sincerely hope that we will achieve what we have aspired for this portal.