''Plagiarism taint against big guns''
LATIKA SHARMA | New Delhi, August 13, 2012 18:30
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Fareed Zakaria | plagiarism | New York Times |
Plagiarism, an illegal act of copying the ideas or writings of another people without due acknowledgement, is not just a practise often done by students but even high profile journalists, writers and educators have been found guilty of plagiarism, whether it is on purpose or by accident.
With Fareed Zakaria's recent plagiarism case, TSI takes a look into the other known journalists and writers who were rapped for the act of plagiarism.
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Fareed Zakaria: Fareed Rafiq Zakaria, Time editor-at-large and CNN host was suspended from services after he admitted to plagiarising portions of an article from 'The New Yorker' on gun control issue in America. Fareed Zakaria is an Indian-American journalist and author. |
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Mulk Raj Anand: Mulk Raj Anand, an Indian writer in English was charged for plagiarising an article by famous Oxford professor R.C. Zaehner. |
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Indrani Aikath-Gyaltsen: Indrani's book Cranes' Morning was discovered to have been plagiarised from a 1956 novel by Elizabeth Goudge. Indrani was a freelance journalist and writer of Indian origin. |
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Shiv Khera: Shiv Khera was accused of plagiarism for his 2004 book 'Freedom is not Free'. He was alleged to have copied passages from retired railway official Amrit Lal's book 'India-Enough is Enough', published 8 years before. Shiv Khera is an Indian motivational speaker, author, activist, and politician. |
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Nikhat Kazmi: Film critic Nikhat Kazmi was caught plagiarising Roger Ebert's review. Her review of Shark Tale in Times of India was lifted from Roger Ebert’s review for the Chicago Suntimes. A well-known film critic, she has been writing for The Times of India since 1987. |
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Kaavya Viswanathan: Kaavya Viswanathan was featured in the New York Times for her book How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life, and then it was found that she plagiarized portions of the novel from two books by Megan McCafferty. Some other sections of her novel were also found to be plagiarised from another book by Sophie Kinsella. She apologized for using copied content in her novel. |
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Jayson Blair: Jayson Blair is an American life coach and journalist formerly with The New York Times. He resigned from the newspaper in May 2003 when he was found guilty of plagiarism in his stories. While checking all his articles that he wrote for the newspaper, Editors found that Blair had fabricated stories, invented quotes and even manipulated photographs in support of his pieces. |
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