For those of you in Mumbai, I can recommend the British Council Library at Mittal Chambers - Nariman Point.

Categories of books include Commerce, Business, Sports, History, Medical, Chemistry, Physics, IT, Fiction - e.g. Ludlum, JR Tolkien, Raoul Dahl, Wodehouse, Engineering, Economics (includes amartya sen stuff as well), History - World / UK / Indian. Sports coverage include Cricket history and the art, fencing, dancing, athletics, judo-karate, riding, gymnastics, boxing, falconry (yes - believe me this stuff was really mind blowing), social work.

Others include video shooting, rock music (with lyrics and notes of beatle numbers), jazz, acting, plays - plenty of stuff on

Fees come to about 1300 per annum.

Magazines include British Medical journal, cricket, The Economist, Financial Times, London weekies and dailies, InformationAge, DataQuest.

CDs, videos, children books, corporate membership, memberships to include family (higher annual fees of course :-)

This is also a good place to while time in case one travels to the city area and wants to chill out 3-4 hours. Xeroxing facility, automated index searches, help desk staff, internet hours, UK information are other facilities.

For those of you who want better out of life instead of rotting your brains watching crap on TV, or wasting hours and money at Cyberchats, Internets - I would recommend this place to stimulate your grey matter.

Cribs: The library has adequate feedback mechanisms to notify, respond and do something on anything that can improve on service to its customers. As such, I come among the people who is generally very happy with whatever theyare providing and the fact that they connect and provide me general new things, exhibitions and related on my e-mail.