Over the past six years, through five stores Crossword-Kolkata has reached out to more than 2 million booklovers and has successfully established Crossword more as community center than a book lover. There have been regular readings, discussions and debates on varied subjects from literature and art to child sexual abuse, war and peace, business and management, travel, parenting and health. Among the numerous writers who have visited the store are Sir Gunter Grass, Salman Rushdie, Javed Akhtar, Robin Sharma, Robert Calasso, Amartya Sen, Manil Suri, Shobha De, Arun Shourie, Amitava Ghosh, Jaswant Singh, Mrinal Sen, Sunil Gangopadhay, Ruskin Bond and William Dalrymple and so on.