Word: kaavya
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Countless conversations I’ve had with Harvard students about Kaavya Viswanathan’s plagiarism controversy have followed a similar pattern. Someone opens the gossip-fest exclaiming, “Did you hear that the girl with the $500,000 book deal plagiarized 40 passages from someone else’s book?” Then someone else chimes in, “How could she think that she could get away with that?” There is usually some mention of, “What she did was so wrong. I mean, it?...
...something wrong?” Granted, most people were not nearly as spiteful, but there were a great number who gleaned a great amount of pleasure from this event. It is unfortunate that people enjoy pointing out the failings of seemingly perfect people and even more unfortunate for Kaavya that she has been the subject of so much gossip...
...Kaavya Viswanathan’s publisher said that the Harvard sophomore’s recently-released novel—which has been dogged by plagiarism allegations—will not be re-released, and that Viswanathan’s two-book contract has been cancelled. In a statement released today, the publisher of Little, Brown, and Company, Michael Pietsch ’78, said: "Little, Brown and Company will not be publishing a revised edition of `How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life' by Kaavya Viswanathan, nor will we publish the second book under contract...
...Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 faces new allegations that her novel, “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,” borrowed material from earlier works...
...dare denounce Opal Mehta? I refer, of course, to “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,” the recently published chick-lit novel by sophomore Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 that first became famous for its singular inception, and then infamous for its not-so-singular authorship. The book’s merits and demerits aside, it is, in many respects, a product of Harvard and a reflection of our community...