In his own words, 40 year-old Dharampal Singh has gone from being a useful figure in an average Delhi University (DU) student’s life to someone “who is simply killing time” near the campus. Well, he is famous — or notorious, some foreign publishers would claim — for different reasons right now, but that certainly isn’t helping, he says.u00a0“I don’t have much to do,” he says over the telephone from Delhi. “Running a tea shop could, perhaps, bring me more money than photocopying now,” he says in Hindi.

On October 10, as part of the campaign, ‘Who Is Afraid of Copyright Infringement’, professors and authors photocopied their works and distributed signed copies to Delhi University students. Pic courtesy/Vasundhara Jairath