Plagiarism can be very entertaining at times – I think I quite like the bit where one is negotiating and putting pressure on the person who grabs your content and uses it without attribution. Perhaps it has to do with my social science background where even if an “a” written or professed by someone is to be borrowed, one needed to attribute with the minutest of details of authorship that go beyond the author’s name.
What was entertaining about today’s brush with plagiarism was the fact that it actually resulted in a new recipe – workable or not is of course a different question.
The plagiarised post by Nausheen initially resembled this recipe from the Yum blog word to word and used the pics , but then it progressively changed with every comment I left at regular intervals.
The proportions of the three flours used for making Pani Puris first changed drastically. Then poor wheat flour was shown the door. In the next edit the quantity of maida dropped and Kabuli Channa gave way to sprouts. Subsequently dates went thrown out of the pani and the whole spices substituted with powdered ones. A pic was removed. The most innovative edit of course was the inclusion of soda in the recipe.
Here’s the link:
http://pakistani-hot-recipes.blogspot.com/2007/08/chatkharay_21.html
Update: She seems to have removed the post and interestingly also turned off comments on her blog.
I have no idea what state this is in right now. The last I saw the recipe had changed but she had retained one pic from my post.
I dint even want write about this today (thinking that perhaps she did it out of ignorance) – but I seek attribution want her to remove that pic, even if her blog may be small and even if this may be insignificant to my larger goals in life. Repeated requests in comments dint work (she deleted most religiously) and hence this post.
Will this ever stop!!!
I checked your original post and that female has even commented there!! What cheap trick people do for adsense!!
i know!!! and i was like ‘is she nuts or something?’
haha… nice post, although I can imagine that you wrote it in frustration! 🙂 Who knew plagiarism could lead to innovation… on the other hand, who says innovation equals edibility? 🙂
actually i was quite entertained by the time i got down to writing this post 😀 – i killed an hour of productive work evening looking at the changes being made to the recipe
i don’t think she ‘gets’ the idea that pictures are not up for grabs. she seems to ‘get’ that recipes should not be copied word for word. or she gets it, but just doesn’t care. almost all the pics on her site are from elsewhere, some even have watermarks on them. it’s like banging your head against a brick wall.
yep, http://www.khanapakana.com – “banging your head against a brick wall” , now that’s a good simile.
for grins. check out the next recipe in the same post:
aloo chana chat. the ingredients and method are from two different recipes. okay, the ingredients are chaat in the same post is lifted from here:
http://festivals.iloveindia.com/karwa-chauth/aloo-chaat.html
and the body is a lamb recipe (badami gosht) from here:
http://www.theholidayspot.com/eid_ul_fitr/recipes.htm
for a minute i thought my eyes were playing tricks.
lol – when i passingly saw lamb being mentioned i thought it must be one her innovations for aloo chaat and moved on – but this is like ridiculous!!!
It is really sad to see that some people don’t get it.
Very sad indeed!
Latha,
That girl has gone crazy, so coolly she did it. I just noticed the aloo chaat recipe Bee pointed out, that girl has just no sense 🙂 Good you came to know about it and got after her.
I wonder the recipe for puris she has invented will yield cluris or papads, or something worse 😀
If you notice there is a nomination for best blogger award in her blog. Just scroll down and see.I am sure even this must have been picked from some where :D))
Latha I enjoyed your post but. If someone needs entertainment they should visit THAT blog 🙂
Archana, thanks for all the support! Best is to ignore her!
Hi Latha! she is just crazy. Anyway you gave the warn to her in her coloumn section. I saw all now only. Its good to tell her. Take care.
BTW thanks for dropping by at my blog.
Just Jyothi, best is to ignore her!
I just love to visit all blogs and know what is cooking! latha.
This is ridiculous !!!
Don’t know what kind of satisfaction they get.
How could she just ignore your comments too ?? Really crazy.
It takes all kinds of people to make this world! We had some entertainment. Thanks for all the support. latha.
Crazy people are out there Lakshmi. Its sad to see that people copy without permission. I am not even sure how one goes about finding out about stuff, but when you do realize it, it is so painful.
the weirdest part is that these are plates we eat out of everyday, so finding it on another space out of the blue felt kind of queasy!!!
OMG , how can she do that .. Iam going to leave a comment on her blog asking her to remove the pic , which is still there.
Thanks Prema. I dont think she’s going to be online for a while 😀
Hi, This is horrible. Plagiarism at its peak! I think we should come up with a blog where we report these type of plagiarisms. What do you think? Or is there already such a site?
I am not aware of any such site Pragyan. Usually repeated reminders work, though it can be prolonged. 🙂