August’s rain-swept bouquet offers the masterful Kanishka Raja’s immediately recognisable work, along with collections featuring up-and-comers.

‘Generations have sought out Higginbothams to come to the rescue: for a particular, hard-to-find reference or text book. We believed that if you couldn’t find it at Higginbothams, you will not find it anywhere else. In many ways. Higginbothams was to us what the Internet is to today’s millennials — the largest known collection of knowledge.’ A Chennai legacy.