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When is plagiarism actually plagiarism?

Thursday, May 4, 2006

I resisted responding to plagiarism charges against U R Anantamurthy in the comments section of Churumuri, simply because any debate on this issue seemed pointless. All of us would simply assert our positions and then we agree with those who agree with us. Ever since Samskara was published in the early 1960s, such plagiarism talk [...]

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Muthu Rajkumar: the Prince who was a pearl and an elder brother

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

His songs play in the background, quietly, melodiously, hauntingly, from every corner of my apartment in Chicago. I am unable to go across the street, to my office in Judd Hall. Work will have to wait. Today and the days to come are about coming to terms with the passing of a man I liked [...]

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Ugadi

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Tomorrow is ugadi, [literally yuga (era) adi (beginning)] the traditional new year’s festival. Ugadi falls on Chaitra Sudhdha Paadyami or the first day Chaitra. All the family members, young and old, are woken up early. Then immediately, a tonne of oil is poured on their head, followed by an elaborate massaging of each strand of [...]

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Dr. Rajkumar: Satya Hariscandra

Saturday, March 25, 2006

The plot of the film, Satya Hariscandra follows Raghavanka’s Hariscandra Kavya closely in its broad outline, but the primary objective here is to depict Hariscandra as a flawless character, truthful, unfailingly polite and dharmic.
Hence the film sets out to establish Hariscandra’s character as a truthful and generous king, who never refuses anything to any seeker [...]

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Hariscandra-2

Friday, March 24, 2006

This week let me return to Hariscandra and post what I wrote in mid-February. Here are the links to earlier stories: Raghavanka -1, Raghavanka - 2, From Cavundaraya to Hariscandra and Hariscandra.
In these earlier posts, I had written on the Sanskritic, puranic versions of the Hariscandra narrative, as well as on the two well known [...]

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V day

Monday, February 13, 2006

Sharath demands from Maldieves a special V day entry. This is his b’day week and how dare I refuse him? Well, in the spirit of the most commercialized and hyped day, I could not come up with anything original and hence picked a cheesy Kannada song but, trust me, unlike my English translation, [...]

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