Belonging as he does to this elite and being a beneficiary of this system, Rushdie has his reasons to celebrate. N.Y. As an expatriate, I am hurt to see the politics of India sinking ever deeper into a quagmire of corruption and caste rivalry. In fact, maybe Dailey's plagiarizing of Roberts' phrases and ideas was a worthwhile endeavor. Colo. The item on Roberts and Dailey was condescending in the extreme and trivialized the matter of plagiarism. As a novelist who has more than 25 million books in print in various genres, including historical romance, suspense, fantasy and science fiction, I feel qualified to state that those of us who write books for a living take the theft of our material very seriously.
Plagiarism is plagiarism, no matter what the type of book.
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