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    The Fountain Awards

    If I become an author, I’m not extremely keen on seeing my book win a Booker or a Pulitzer. Actually, scratch that. When I become an author, I’m not extremely keen on seeing my book win a Booker or a Pulitzer. Instead, I want to see it on the streets of Mumbai, being sold as pirated copies, for basically a dime, by local vendors on a humid day. Specifically on the pavements opposite Mumbai’s Flora Fountain, where the joy of buying pirated and second hand copies of books resides. On these pavements, vendors sit with their tarpaulin tents and wooden stools while they sell these books to hungry readers. All…