Piracy- part I

A trip to the local book stores is always a much awaited one every summer, so i went on one yesterday.
Apart from many other thing, I was surprised to note that the number of pirated titles has actually declined. But on the same hand, it was yet another surprise to find pirated versions of many Pakistani authors. Previously only reference books or international best sellers could be found in 'local print and Pakistani authors' books continued to sell at exhorbitant rates of 400+.
But now we can easily get a Tehmina Durrani, Kamila Shamsie or Bapsi Sidhwa work for within a hundred rupee!

On a positive note, I refrained from buying any pirated books althought the prices of the originals limited the number of my purchases. whatever the reasons be, i bought the original titles.
yay to fight against piracy!