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...Kaavya Viswanathan was a writer long before she came to Harvard. She will be a writer long after she leaves this campus. That she happens to be a Harvard student for these four years of her life should not strip her of her personal identity. She should be held accountable, above all, to herself, not to an institution—even if that institution, at least in the public eye, defines her first. In her (dubious) authorship of “Opal Mehta,” we should see Viswanthan as a writer first, and a Harvard student second...
...send Viswanathan to the Administrative Board is to send the wrong message to both the Harvard community and the community at large—namely, that Harvard’s name subsumes all other identities we might have before, during, and after our tenure here...
...amount of regional and national press over what insiders are calling “Opalgate” is bordering on the absurd. Kaavya Viswanathan ’08, author of “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life,” borrowed liberally from another author’s work. So what? In the hip-hop world, this goes down all the time. The main question for all the chick-lit fans, and possibly the courts, is whether Viswanathan is a “biter,” or just standing on the shoulders...
...month-old novel by Harvard undergraduate Kaavya Viswanathan ’08, who has been plagued by plagiarism accusations, will not be re-released, and the sophomore’s two-book deal has been cancelled, her publisher said yesterday in a statement.“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,” said Little, Brown’s publisher Michael Pietsch...
...learned of the similarities between “Opal Mehta” and both “Haroun” and “The Princess Diaries” through e-mail tips. The “Princess Diaries” similarity was found on the online weblog DesiJournal. Viswanathan has defended her writing in the past by stating that she “internalized” McCafferty’s books, and that she has a photographic memory...