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...Praveen Kumar, a stout, shabby-looking bookseller who squats next to his wares in a dingy corner of New Delhi's Connaught Place, prides himself on giving customers hefty discounts on their favorite British and American best sellers. The 45-year-old former bookbinder peddles American author Irving Wallace's The Fan Club for 110 rupees ($2.40), about 15% less than the publisher's recommended price. Of course, Kumar adds with a sigh, that's nothing compared with the discounts he offered in the good old days, before India's recent crackdown on pirated books. Kumar previously ran off dozens...
...Whether or not book piracy ends, one veteran of the street-side industry thinks the future is bleak. "No one's buying books these days," says Pramod Kumar (no relation to Praveen), who sells an assortment of books and magazines in Connaught Place. "They're all watching TV serials." After 22 years in the business, he says he's thinking of changing professions. With a grin that exposes two rows of blackened teeth, he confides, "The future...
...will mobilize a people's movement across the country which will take over thousands of mosques that were built over demolished Hindu temples." PRAVEEN TOGAIDA, leader of the fundamentalist World Hindu Forum, vowing drastic action if the Indian government blocks reconstruction of a temple on a long-disputed site in Ayodhya...
...There will be no leisurely strolls down memory lane, no wistful reminiscing about Our Vanished Youth, and certainly no tedious shout-outs to roommates, friends and sundry others. This will doubtless come as disappointing surprise to the merry band in Quincy 616 and 613 (sorry, Alex and Tuttle and Praveen and Brian and Andy and Josh and Allen) and perhaps to others of significance (forgive me, Abby). But standards must be upheld, even when on the brink of the apocalypse...
...necessarily agree with the hostility but that's almost what's important about the conference," said conference director Praveen R. Shanbhag '02. "The contention is almost the heart of what we're trying to foster...