How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got A Life - Plagiarism - Additional Accusations - Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie

Within days after the story broke, Viswanathan's name became one of the most searched terms at the blog search engine Technorati, and the scandal was a popular topic for commentators at web forums from MetaFilter to Amazon.com and Gawker.com. On May 1, 2006, The New York Times ran a story giving national prominence to claims on the Sepia Mutiny blog that Viswanathan may have lifted text from Salman Rushdie's 1990 novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories.

Rushdie's Haroun and the Sea of Stories Viswanathan's Opal Mehta
page 35: Warning reads, "If from speed you get your thrill / take precaution—make your will." page 118: Poster reads, "If from drink you get your thrill, take precaution—write your will."
page 31: Warning reads, "All the dangerous overtakers / end up safe at undertaker's." page 119: Poster reads, "All the dangerous drug abusers end up safe as total losers."

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    I used to say: ‘there is a God-shaped hole in me.’ For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
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    Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
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    Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations.
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    If you want to tell the untold stories, if you want to give voice to the voiceless, you’ve got to find a language. Which goes for film as well as prose, for documentary as well as autobiography. Use the wrong language, and you’re dumb and blind.
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    Our lives teach us who we are.
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