Comments on: Kaavya’s Boo Boo http://www.anitabora.com/blog/2006/04/26/kaavyas-boo-boo/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:19:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anita http://www.anitabora.com/blog/2006/04/26/kaavyas-boo-boo/comment-page-1/#comment-57893 Anita Fri, 05 May 2006 03:08:44 +0000 http://www.anitabora.com/blog/?p=371#comment-57893 navin: apparently her book started selling like hotcakes before it was pulled of! all the bad publicity didn't deter people it seems :) usha: what i can't understand is how she thought she could get away with it! like you said, if it was some author of a different era, no one would probably have known. but to have 'borrowed' from someone who is apparently well read in America (at least in the teen circles) is quite foolish! rajeev: :) sinoj: using a word like 'internalise' is not going to make it a lesser evil! the fact was that she blatantly lifted passages and changed them to suit her purpose... navin: apparently her book started selling like hotcakes before it was pulled of! all the bad publicity didn’t deter people it seems :)

usha: what i can’t understand is how she thought she could get away with it! like you said, if it was some author of a different era, no one would probably have known. but to have ‘borrowed’ from someone who is apparently well read in America (at least in the teen circles) is quite foolish!

rajeev: :)

sinoj: using a word like ‘internalise’ is not going to make it a lesser evil! the fact was that she blatantly lifted passages and changed them to suit her purpose…

]]> By: sinoj http://www.anitabora.com/blog/2006/04/26/kaavyas-boo-boo/comment-page-1/#comment-57860 sinoj Thu, 04 May 2006 14:21:29 +0000 http://www.anitabora.com/blog/?p=371#comment-57860 I remember reading an article about originality in design -- "creativity is copying from an unknown designer". How can she do something like this when she knows that the exposure is so global? On the other hand, may be she really did internalize the novels? She must be reading a lot, and fast. How else do you explain someone so young able to write a novel, and get a famous publisher to buy it? I remember reading an article about originality in design — “creativity is copying from an unknown designer”.

How can she do something like this when she knows that the exposure is so global?

On the other hand, may be she really did internalize the novels? She must be reading a lot, and fast. How else do you explain someone so young able to write a novel, and get a famous publisher to buy it?

]]> By: rajeev http://www.anitabora.com/blog/2006/04/26/kaavyas-boo-boo/comment-page-1/#comment-57587 rajeev Sat, 29 Apr 2006 10:11:27 +0000 http://www.anitabora.com/blog/?p=371#comment-57587 the only summary to this ...is the good old saying "Nakal ke liye bhi akal cahiye" -Rajeev the only summary to this …is the good old saying
“Nakal ke liye bhi akal cahiye”

–Rajeev

]]> By: usha http://www.anitabora.com/blog/2006/04/26/kaavyas-boo-boo/comment-page-1/#comment-57498 usha Fri, 28 Apr 2006 03:49:17 +0000 http://www.anitabora.com/blog/?p=371#comment-57498 In today's age of short lived memories, Kaavya would have got away if she had not "borrowed" chunks and "forgotten" to use the quotes from an author of a different era. I guess she was naive to do it with a writer whose books occupied the same shelves as hers in the stalls. What is it - the impatience to get your few minutes of glory before being consigned to oblivion or the lure of money - short term goals that so characterise our fastfood world? Whatever the motivation, it was a sad end to someone who could actually have been a good writer. In today’s age of short lived memories, Kaavya would have got away if she had not “borrowed” chunks and “forgotten” to use the quotes from an author of a different era. I guess she was naive to do it with a writer whose books occupied the same shelves as hers in the stalls. What is it — the impatience to get your few minutes of glory before being consigned to oblivion or the lure of money — short term goals that so characterise our fastfood world?
Whatever the motivation, it was a sad end to someone who could actually have been a good writer.

]]> By: navin http://www.anitabora.com/blog/2006/04/26/kaavyas-boo-boo/comment-page-1/#comment-57447 navin Thu, 27 Apr 2006 06:42:25 +0000 http://www.anitabora.com/blog/?p=371#comment-57447 Could you correct my URI in my previous post Could you correct my URI in my previous post

]]> By: navin http://www.anitabora.com/blog/2006/04/26/kaavyas-boo-boo/comment-page-1/#comment-57446 navin Thu, 27 Apr 2006 06:41:35 +0000 http://www.anitabora.com/blog/?p=371#comment-57446 Any person who has the brains to get into Harvard, definitely knows it's wrong to copy from another person's work. Guess she though no one would find out. Any person now buying her book will definitely think more than twice before doing so. Any person who has the brains to get into Harvard, definitely knows it’s wrong to copy from another person’s work. Guess she though no one would find out.
Any person now buying her book will definitely think more than twice before doing so.

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