IndiCast Episode #22 - Plagiarism
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English - May 13, 2006 22:24 - 814 KB - ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsTech News News Society & Culture india desi hindi bombay indicast bollywood canada india news mumbai delhi Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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One fine morning, the 19 year old Harvard sophomore, Kaavya Vishwanathan wrote a book, got rich, got famous, and then, got caught. While she seems to have been only "inspired" by one of her favourite authors and that the similarities between her book, 'How Opal Mehta Got kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life' and Sophie Kinsella's 'Can You Keep a Secret' were only coincidental, we at indicast discuss the fine line between inspiration and plagiarism. The NGO that we researched about this week is by the name of Apne Aap, an NGO which has taken up the daring initiative to end sex-trafficking in India.