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Famously Charged With Plagiarism

Mulk Raj Anand, Indrani Aikath-Gyaltsen, V.N. Narayanan, B.S. Rajput, Shiv Khera: write us about some of the obvious ones we left out.

Famously Charged With Plagiarism
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  • Mulk Raj Anand: For lifting an article by renowned Oxford professor R.C. Zaehner

  • Indrani Aikath-Gyaltsen: She died mysteriously after her book Cranes' Morning was found to be plagiarised from a 1956 novel by Elizabeth Goudge

  • V.N. Narayanan: Resigned in 1999 as editor of the Hindustan Times when his column was discovered to have been plagiarised from the UK Sunday Times' Bryan Appleyard

  • B.S. Rajput: Resigned as vice-chancellor of Kumaon University in 2003 on being indicted for copying chunks of a Stanford professor's research paper on black holes

  • Shiv Khera: His 2004 book Freedom is not Free was alleged to have plagiarised passages from retired railway official Amrit Lal's book India—Enough is Enough. The two are said to have reached an undisclosed agreement.
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