Mumbai, India has a thriving street book-selling business. Or rather, had one. “Most of Mumbai’s pavement booksellers on Veer Nariman Road between Churchgate Station and Marine Drive are now an endangered species. A municipal clean-up is getting rid of hawkers in a city-wide drive to make Mumbai more like modernising Shanghai. Last summer, the city’s municipal agency evicted more than 50 of the roughly 75 pavement booksellers and carted away more than a dozen truckloads of books.”