If you are writing blog for Wall Street Journal what a “normal” writer would like to do? of course he / she would try to give his/her best. Or would you try to plagiarize matter from another website, like BBC? One might be out of mind to do that. But shortcuts in life seem so tempting and rewarding. It seems Indian blogger Mona Sarika learnt nothing from Kavya Viswanathan ( Thanks to Kaavya, everyone’s a suspect.) One moment she was considered as a hero and next moment she was a zero. I have never seen such a live example of everything going on for you to a journey into literary nothingness. Now writer Mona Sarika. Read what she has done. Here Wall Street Journal is apologizing to its readers:
“Notice to Readers: A Nov. 10 "New Global Indian" online column by New York City freelance writer Mona Sarika has been found to contain information that was plagiarized from several publications, including the Washington Post, Little India, India Today and San Francisco magazine. In addition, Ms. Sarika re-used direct quotes from other publications, without attribution, and changed the original speakers’ names to individuals who appear to be fabricated. The column is the only work by Ms. Sarika to be published by the Journal, and it has been removed from the Journal’s web sites.”
Hope people realize that we live in a connected world and its just a matter of time that sooner or later it will be out in the open.
Hi,Alka…here’s wishing you a thrilling,delightful 2010..:) And, regarding this plagiarism, I’m shocked…I did read the book’How Opal Mehta…’ and found it a good TP, some time back..little did I know this fact about plagiarism…but,frankly, I don’t think the publishers would be able to get back all the copies, now- surely not the thousands which have also been pirated..:)Quite sad,frankly.
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But, it’s something I often wonder about- ok, we’re not masters at writing, so we don’t worry about someone copy-pasting from our blogs- but, with the net being so easily accessible to all, and, nearly everything from quotes to books also being at one’s fingertips, this kind of plagiarism will surely only increase,will it not?
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