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Hitting the Pavement...
...expensive educational textbooks, which they then photocopy and print in bulk in nearby cities such as Meerut. Production costs for paperbacks can be as low as 11? per copy?cheap enough to enable pirates to profit while undercutting cover prices of genuine versions by up to 70%. Though some pavement booksellers stick to selling legitimate books, others like Kumar say the knockoff trade is hard to resist because it's lucrative, demand for cheap reading material is high and local authorities can be paid to look the other way. Kumar says he bribes the police about $20 and New Delhi...
...halcyon days might be numbered. The book industry has launched 300 raids on pavement sellers in the past two years, according to Das of the publishers' association. Kumar laments that because of the raids, he's been forced to become an honest dealer?with disastrous results for his bottom line: his daily turnover has dropped from about $85 to about $5. "I wouldn't say the problem is under control, but we're fighting back now," says Penguin's Sukumar...
...hour later, I’m sitting on the pavement, and I’ve seen a parade of sick, disabled, and blind young and old, being wheeled or prodded towards the grotto to receive their blessing. Hearing poignant organ music in the background and operating on little sleep, I have been robbed of self-control; my sobs come in big hiccuping gulps that I hide as best I can beneath my sunglasses...
...wicked attack on the pretensions of Peter Gabriel: "And the British Airways girls they sigh/ Saying 'There goes that Phil Collins guy.'" Listening to the French is much like listening to the indie-rock god Stephen Malkmus' solo work; it gives you a wistful yearning that his great band Pavement was still recording, but you're grateful for anything you can still get. As for Molly, the last time I saw her was in the New York Post, pregnant. There's a song in there somewhere...