New Delhi, March 23, 2026 (AFP) - Indian police seize 20,000 books in major blow to piracy ring

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Indian police have seized more than 20,000 pirated books, including titles by novelists Arundhati Roy and Haruki Murakami, to dismantle a major piracy ring, publishers said Monday. The raids, which took place on March 15, highlight the scale of piracy in India's book market -- and the country's enduring love of reading. It exposed a "sophisticated and large-scale distribution operation", Penguin Random House India said in a statement, who said it......

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