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April 27, 2006
The KV saga
"Kaavya was my student last spring (in a section where I was a TA). I was surprised to learn she had written a book, as her writing was awful-- I had given her low grades on her papers.
I feel bad for her, even though she was always falling asleep in section (as if you don't notice a snoozing person sitting at a conference table for ten). Plagiarizing from chick lit has to be some kind of double whammy against artistic integrity."
Read more reactions here.
Apologists for KV are crawling out of the woodwork: her youth, her presence at Harvard, the way writers "internalize" other works. KV seems to be curiously unrepentant herself. No doubt, this is good grounding for a corporate li(f)e. The Grumpy Old Indian Man says it best.
Posted by Ahmad Saidullah at April 27, 2006 04:01 AM
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