How Kaavya won the deal, got published and got exposed..
Of Admiration.. Disgust.. Sympathy..
"NRI teen author secures Rs 2.2-cr deal"
When my eyes locked with the above headline, somewhere in the Chronicle, months back, random, mixed thoughts were being knit, quick and fast. *Boy, She is just as old as me! This is so unbelievable. Whoa,a whopping, eye-popping 50,000$, man.. what an amazing prodigy! Being in Harvard, itself is something absolutely fabulous. And now, she has clinched a dream deal, all at nineteen! Damn! why is it that it's just a certain blessed few who get all the opportunities in the world ? Why the bias? Not fair :(.. Pangs of envy too crept in amidst an unparalleled magnitude of admiration for the "dream". Held her in complete awe.*
"Student’s Novel Faces Plagiarism Controversy"
*It came to me as a total shocker. Initially, quite hard to stomach even. But when passages from
Megan F McCafferty's and Kaavya's were juxtaposed, everything came to light, crystal clear. Why in the blazes were numerals (yes, of all things, this too! ) copied? Atleast that could have been changed to add that much-needed smack of originality (Anyways,am not justifying the act, by the way). But Kaavya chose otherwise, which by any Harvard sophomore's standards, rather, anybody(oh i meant sensible ones) for that matter, is outrageously preposterous. Yes, there's no denying that it's a teen novel and teen novels are bound to have a whole lot of common issues - dating, crushes,parties,kissing and dancing et al, as a result of which the concepts that feature in these genre of novels are definitely overlapping. But blatant copying is just unpardonable. come on, even the music remixes have modulated rhythms and different beats, providing the wave of energy and freshness to an old song. But this !? Mere cutting and pasting? Puhleeze!*
Opal Mehta is off the shelves now. Kaavya's dream to be a writer too is shelved, which is again sad because, afterall, she had it in her- the smartness, the flamboyance and the spunk to make it to the Harvard. Dreamt big, nothing wrong in that too. But to be in the elite Hall of Fame, a bit too soon with all the haste in the world.. Kaavya got it wrong there. If the cocoon is broken "unnaturally", everyone knows what happens to the butterfly.
It pays to be John Nash-ish.. (Am talkin about the heady mix of being patient and being original to reach the zenith.)
"NRI teen author secures Rs 2.2-cr deal"
When my eyes locked with the above headline, somewhere in the Chronicle, months back, random, mixed thoughts were being knit, quick and fast. *Boy, She is just as old as me! This is so unbelievable. Whoa,a whopping, eye-popping 50,000$, man.. what an amazing prodigy! Being in Harvard, itself is something absolutely fabulous. And now, she has clinched a dream deal, all at nineteen! Damn! why is it that it's just a certain blessed few who get all the opportunities in the world ? Why the bias? Not fair :(.. Pangs of envy too crept in amidst an unparalleled magnitude of admiration for the "dream". Held her in complete awe.*
"Student’s Novel Faces Plagiarism Controversy"
*It came to me as a total shocker. Initially, quite hard to stomach even. But when passages from
Megan F McCafferty's and Kaavya's were juxtaposed, everything came to light, crystal clear. Why in the blazes were numerals (yes, of all things, this too! ) copied? Atleast that could have been changed to add that much-needed smack of originality (Anyways,am not justifying the act, by the way). But Kaavya chose otherwise, which by any Harvard sophomore's standards, rather, anybody(oh i meant sensible ones) for that matter, is outrageously preposterous. Yes, there's no denying that it's a teen novel and teen novels are bound to have a whole lot of common issues - dating, crushes,parties,kissing and dancing et al, as a result of which the concepts that feature in these genre of novels are definitely overlapping. But blatant copying is just unpardonable. come on, even the music remixes have modulated rhythms and different beats, providing the wave of energy and freshness to an old song. But this !? Mere cutting and pasting? Puhleeze!*
Opal Mehta is off the shelves now. Kaavya's dream to be a writer too is shelved, which is again sad because, afterall, she had it in her- the smartness, the flamboyance and the spunk to make it to the Harvard. Dreamt big, nothing wrong in that too. But to be in the elite Hall of Fame, a bit too soon with all the haste in the world.. Kaavya got it wrong there. If the cocoon is broken "unnaturally", everyone knows what happens to the butterfly.
It pays to be John Nash-ish.. (Am talkin about the heady mix of being patient and being original to reach the zenith.)
posted by Stuffed Goofy! at 10:40 AM
7 Comments:
As of now, the Kaavya case is that of media overexposure. They applauded ehr and gave her a crown that didnt quite fit her. Then, after they realized their mistake, were quick to pull her down too. Its just the pressure to become famous that forces youngsters to plagiarise..keeping originality aside and giving the original long and struggled path the miss!
infortunately the pressure is created by the media itself...so u see the vicious circle of giving into the pressure, being famous and losing it all ..continues...
hi, thanks a lot! it meant a lot to me... lets keep in touch!
The plagarisation issue that grips the society has roots down the 10-12 year olds... Come on??? Do u think only Kaavya and Dan Brown can plagarise????Or do u think that only Watson and Crick can win the Nobel Prize that should have been given to Rosalind???? How many assignments have we worked out on our own?? R we not familiar with the three magic words... the instant job fix?? Cut.. copy.. paste.. be it a technical paper, a small assignment.. or any experiment reading...We can hardly count the times we have been original... portrayed our original self... and got credit for original work. This monster of plagarisation has crippled the human race.. and threatens to rust human intelligence and creativity... What we need right now is the realisation and awareness of certain ethics... values that lay down the standards of originality... LONG LIVE NOVELTY...
and, lakshmi dearest.. gr8 blog!!! thanks for hitting the issue ..
my thoughts exactly!
finally got my sympathy!
Maybe its coz shes also indian.
Waiting to get my hands on a copy of that book somehow.
weell heard the news ,ticker??-it seems miss.kaavya is the brand ambassador for XEROX;-)
Looks nice! Awesome content. Good job guys.
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