Pirates, Plagiarisers, Publishers: "This article attempts to rescue Indian academic research, not by denying the charges of plagiarism, but by charting an alternative trajectory of plagiarism so that each successive instance does not amplify our sense of embarrassment and crisis in the academy.
Someone must have slandered Indian academia, for, without having done anything new or different, allegations of plagiarism have suddenly been tumbling out of India’s “top” universities in these past few years.
In October 2002, a group of physicists from Stanford University, including three Nobel Laureates, addressed a letter to the (then) president Abdul Kalam complaining of plagiarism by the vice chancellor of Kumaon University. In January 2006, a professor from IIM Bangalore was dismissed for plagiarism.1 In February 2008, a professor from the Sri Venkateswara University in Tirupathi was accused of having plagiarised up to 70 papers between 2004 and 2007.2 In October 2010, IIT Kharagpur was forced to set up a committee to investigate allegations of plagiarism by one of its professors and three doctoral candidates"
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