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September 25, 2004

Hari Puttar in Calcutta

A local ... extension of the Harry Potter series has been shut down by JK Rowlings lawyers.

"Immediately after the Philosopher's Stone, Harry gets onto his Nimbus 2000 broom and zooms across to Calcutta at the invitation of young boy called Junto," ... [where] [t]hey come across a whole bunch of literary characters from earlier Bengali fiction.

No word as to whether they encounter Pavitr Prabhakar along the way.

ennis on September 25, 2004 12:50 PM in · T·r·a·c·k·b·a·c·k address · Direct link · Email post



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 1 · Manish Vij on September 25, 2004 02:02 PM · Direct link · “Quote”(?)
It sold several thousand copies before it was stopped, with both books at several book fairs - including the large Calcutta book fair, the biggest literary event in Bengal... "He's very affronted. He seems to be very sad because he thinks he was doing a rather nice job..."

Ah, desis' strong support of intellectual property rights :)

Russia's even better:

They are especially popular in China, and in Russia, where the hero has changed sex and is known as Tanya Grotter.

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