Intellectual dishonesty

This refers to Mr. Biswas Baral's The plagiarist (June 30).

Plagiarism is a real issue of the world. I do not mean to be disrespectful toward the writer but the truth is that ideas and words are not the same. Ideas are bigger concepts derived from intellectual insight that does not need any words. It can be discussed, revised and recorded in any forms whatsoever. On the contrary, words are always naked.

Having taken bits-and-pieces from some source and naming them does not impair the originality of article, Yet, by simply giving credits to other authors, the writer seems to be valuing himself. Intellectualism comes from accepting and realizing the fact that there are bigger ideas and better individuals working on the tings you would ever have imagined.

Santosh Kalwar

via myrepublica.com

Published: Letter to Editor
04-07-2011
Republica

Writer

I do not know what this term means-"Writer", There are hundred and thousand of those people who call themselves as writer. I never got an idea what this word mean and what it socially does. Every body assumes that they are writer, Many of writers are very well appreciated and also are very famous. What makes some one writer ? Who is writer ? Can any one become a writer ? These questions are the question which remained unanswered even it may be true to one but may not be true to other. Once I was watching a movie and the actor said, Writing is something similar to shitting. The process of act of doing both things are same. The words come in our mind and it is delivered in the paper. The other act is know to every one (shitting). It may be true, to some extent. It might be different in other context. It might also be false if someone do not wants to agree with this. We should take the things as they are but not what we imagine it to be. But many of us don't. We take any aspect of things like words, expression, comments or any materialistic affairs the way we want to take it. The things we do not want to take we just leave them. The perception is different and it should be different. Coming to the second question which i do not have a clue. Who is writer by the way ? Are all the famous writers only the writers and the guy like me is not. There can be many different factors which make one person as a writer and other person as not. Why do any one get interested in writing ? What is the purpose ? If I take an e.g. of my alone- I do not do it for any special purpose-I do not even edit what I write. I just write because I feel to do so, my inner self says-Come on boy just put what you wish to put. Tell your readers the things that you have experienced in your life and the things that are going on in your mind right now. Do not hesitate. Feel free ! Fly like you never have. Just go with the current flow and get the end result which is very important to any human in this planet. "Satisfaction" ! Is their any possibility for anyone to become a writer ? Why not ? Every one has this talent and any one who wishes to write can writer-It is just the matter that some one likes it and some on do not but as long as you do not care about that factor you are writer.

One last aspect that I feel is that writers are very good at knowing people. They always want to figure out what is going on some one else's mind. Well, I do not know about other writers but to some extent the writer writing these words does. Welcome to the world of writing !