Marathi daily Loksatta's Brahmin editor Girish Kuber has been caught red-handed for plagiarising verbatim from scholar Andrew Lilico's blog. This is not, however, the first time that Kuber has plagiarized. (1/6)
In the past, Kuber stole from Govind Talwalkar's article on Charles Dickens published in Saadhana Journal. If you are a regular reader of Marathi newspapers especially Sunday supplements, you would know that Kuber is not the only journo/ writer who routinely plagiarises. (2/6)
Marathi newspapers are filled with Op-eds, short stories, commentaries written by Brahmins - Kulkarnis, Nadkarnis, Joshis, Karandikar, Vaidyas, Chitales, Aptes, Bhates, Sahasrabudhes, Gokhales etc. For decades, these people have been presenting themselves as defence experts (3/6)
Agri experts, international affairs experts, experts on social issues, cinema, arts and everything under the Sun. Most of the times their pieces are translations of articles from reputed national/international journals like Guardian, WaPo, LA Times, The Economist (4/6)
NY/London Review of Books, Foreign Affairs and so on. Most of the Marathi fiction writers as well copy the works of Latino, African-American writers with a pinch of Marathi flavour. Unfortunately, there is no proper system to expose these leeches. (5/6)
You open any Marathi newspaper/Sunday supplements and it is sickening to see how these people occupy so much space with absolutely no expertise, calibre to write Op-eds/ commentaries (6/6)
