Your Plagiarism is absolutely unacceptable - Open letter to Suparno Satpathy
bimal pandia
Bank Colony, Sakhipada, Sambalpur, 768 001
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ACHYUT DAS
I am one with you in expressing concern over the issue of plagiarism.
I am sure many in various networks are going through your posting and must be wondering why Mr. Suporno Satpathy is not coming forward with a clarification. If he thinks that he has made a mistake inadvertently, there is no harm in apologising. Absolutely no harm!
I want to tell you our experience. We in Agragamee had developed quite a few teaching- learning materials on Literacy and many reputed NGOs have copies them fully and published them in their name without even acknowledging the source or the author. We used to have a deep sense of hurt but it goes on.When there is such a competition to occupy public space, one can go to any extent to grab that space. I see that one who has done any credible work on Water Harvesting receives awards sponsored by the corporates. One who champions the causes of climate change resorts to lies and falsehood to draw international attention. We have suffered this and we have to live with it.
I request you to close this issue and carry forward in your own unique way without fear or remorse. Hope you will do that to keep your honour and dignity.
With best wishes,
Achyut
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bimal pandia
To
Sri Suparno Satpathy,Chairman of Srimati Nandini Satpathy Memorial TrustSub: You have resorted to obscene plagiarism
Dear Suparno babu,
Kindly go through the followings:1. That on 28.12.2010 I found an article titled 'A special package of lies from the govt. of Odisha' published in webportal www.orissabarta.com (http://orissabarta.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4043:a-special-package-of-lies-from-the-govt-of-odisha&catid=41:articles&Itemid=27).2. That Suparno Satpathy, Chairman SNSMT, has been shown as author of that article.
2. That this is nothing but a complete cut and paste of my article 'A Package of lies' which I had posted in various e-groups and my own blog www.bimalpandia.blogspot.com on 23.12.2010. In other words, this is lewd plagiarism to the core.
3. That the only changes in the article that the website shows as yours are as follows: (a) Substitution of two names, 'Annada Mishra of Bankia village in Sonepur district' with 'Girdhar Pradhan of Chendipada at Angul district', and 'Anata Bariha, a small farmer of Dhatuk village in Balangir district' with 'Dinu , a small farmer of Balangir district'; (b) Deletion of names (whom I had quoted) Ashok Pradhan, Murari Prasad Purohit, Saroj Mohanty, Bijay Dishari, M. Govindu and Daktar Bhoi; and (c) Deletion of inverted commas for quoted portions whose names have been deleted.
4. That though you have not made much changes to my article, at one place where you have tried to do something different, you have only become more funny. For example you have substituted '“I am being told that I will get only 1,200 rupees compensation for the lost crop in my one and half acre holding,” informs Ananta and adds “I had spent 20,000 rupees on the crop.” with “I have been offered a 1,200 rupees compensation for my lost crop on my one and half acre holding,” said Dinu and he added “I had spent 20,000 rupees on this crop which is completely ruined.”
5. That this kind of theft of my creation and blatant plagiarism is unseen and unaccepted in a civil world.
6. That from the way you have made the posting and the way you have funnily tried to change names and a preposition, clear indications emanate that the said act has been done deliberately with a clear malafide intention to claim my article as yours.6. That on the very day when I found out that my article has been posted as your article, on www.orissabarta.com (on 28.12.2010), I did send you a personal mail.8. That it was personal because I had no intention to stretch the matter to ugly proportions. And there was another reason too. As I tried to find out who you are I found from www.orissabarta.com and www.snsmt.org websites and from google search engine that you claim to be heir of late Smt Nandini Satpathyji. Since my father and Nandi Satpathyji were close friends at political level and I personally have great respect for that leader and his son Tathagat babu, I prefer to not make that public and give you enough chance.
9. That since at that point of time I did not have your own email ID, I sent you my first mail at addresses editoror...@gmail.com, and in...@snsmt.org. I collected those emails info/contact us links of www.orissabarta.com and www.snsmt.org websites.10. That in that mail I had requested you to kindly say sorry and remove the post from www.orissabarta.com. I had also told you that I will wait for few days for your reply and if you do not reply quickly I shall make the issue public and may take other recourse claim compensation for infringement into my creation.11. That the text of that mail was later posted in my blog www.bimalpandia.blogspot.com under heading 'blatant plagiarism'.12. That you did not fit it necessary to say sorry or remove the article from www.orissabarta.com and I have not received any communication from you regarding that yet.
13. That though you preferred not to respond to my mails, funnily you sent me a new year wish at my mobile. From this I assume that you have my contact. And since you have stolen my article from either my blog or from some e-groups, I assume that also had the opportunity to get my email ID as all my postings always and invariably go with my contact below the posts.
14. That from this I can safely make out that you had enough opportunity to say me sorry or respond to my mail but you preferred not to do either.
15. Hence, I made the issue public by posting the matter in few Odisha centric e-groups on 31.12.2010.16. That since I have made that post, I have received a lot of calls and mails from many readers who have expressed their agony, distraught, displeasure and rejection of your act.17. That many well wishers have advised me to post both articles - my original article and my article which you have posted as yours in www.orissabarta.com. I will soon publish comparison of both in blog www.bimalpandia.blogspot.com. (For your information I have also posted the entire www.orissabarta.com webpage in my blog).18. That since no communication still came at any level from you and the said posting is still on at www.orissabarta.com, I again made posting on 5.1.11 that your plagiarism is absolutely unacceptable to me.
21. That I again reiterate that I do not know you and do now wish to cause you any loss. But if you continue to ignore my request to say sorry and express regret, I shall be constrained to take necessary steps to save my intellectual creations which may, in that process, cause you intellectual harm and unnecessarily consume my time.22. That from sources I have come to learn that you are a grandson of Smt Nandini Satpathy. You are stated to be educated abroad. You also have political inclination. And you also are the Chairman of a trust formed in Nandini Satpathy's name and by virtue of that claim to be a civil society worker.18. That I respect your background and urge you to take necessary steps so that your esteem and social standing is not damaged by nefarious deeds such as this one.
Suparno babu, I hope you have the ability and will to understand the hurt that you have caused me and in doing that, I hope you also know, the potentials of damaging your own interests. Thus I hope you will tender an unconditional and clear apology and declare that you will not resort to such practices in future. In return I shall wish you good luck.
RegardsBimal Prasad Pandia--Bimal Prasad Pandia
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Bimal Prasad Pandia
Bank Colony, Sakhipada, Sambalpur, 768 001, Odisha, India
bimal pandia
Pranam !
I thank you very much for standing with me in condemning plagiarism. I
also solidly stand by you and Agragamee in strongly condemning those
organisations who have used intellectual materials produced by you.
In this case Mr Suparno Satphaty did not make the 'mistake
inadvertently'. It was deliberate and done with clear malafide
intention to hijack my article as his. This is evident from the manner
he has played with the names whom I had quoted and from the manner has
has made slight modification to the title of my article. Still I
believe that there was no harm for Suparno Satpathy to tender an
apology. But unfortunately he didn't.
Thus, this is greatly different from 'advertent mistake' or
'unintentional deed'. This is also vastly different from publishing
some materials without acknowling the source or the author - which has
become rampantly common these days.
Regarding your other comments, I beg to differ with you. This topic
had no connection with anybody getting awards or recognitions from
anybody/organisation. So, I request you not to mess up both things.
However that can be different topic for discussion. Still if I am to
make a comment on that topic I will rather say that If some body or
organisations have got recognitions or laurels or awards from some
quarters then it should be presumed, until and unless proved
otherwise, that they have done reasonably well in their field.
However, if they have earned such awards or recognitions by stealing
other's work and claiming those as thier's than such act must be
condemned with strongest of terms and brought out into the open. So, I
will not undermine any award or recognition that somebody or some
organisations have earned and would not cast doubts until I have other
evidences that cause reasonable doubts on the fairness of such awards/
recognitions. Till then I would congratulate the awardees and laud
their achievements.
Lastly, coming to the core of the discussed topic, though I believe
that this act of plagiarism should not be pardoned so easily, I
endorse your opinion that Mr Suparno Satpathy will still probably
cause no harm to himself or his reputation if tenders an apology. I
also thank you very much for motivating me to go in my own unique way
without fear or remorse. Funnily, of all recent articles posted by the
self proclaimed newsportal www.orissabarta.com, the article in
disuccion here has received the most hits. This is funny and I am
enjoying it. In the same vein, Agramee should also continue to play a
lead role and should not be bothered if some other organisation steal
its creations unfairly and unlawfully.
Regards
Bimal
On Jan 6, 6:26 am, ACHYUT DAS <achyut...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Bimal,
>
> I am one with you in expressing concern over the issue of plagiarism.
>
> I am sure many in various networks are going through your posting and must
> be wondering why Mr. Suporno Satpathy is not coming forward with a
> clarification. If he thinks that he has made a mistake inadvertently, there
> is no harm in apologising. Absolutely no harm!
>
> I want to tell you our experience. We in Agragamee had developed quite a few
> teaching- learning materials on Literacy and many reputed NGOs have copies
> them fully and published them in their name without even acknowledging the
> source or the author. We used to have a deep sense of hurt but it goes
> on.When there is such a competition to occupy public space, one can go to
> any extent to grab that space. I see that one who has done any credible work
> on Water Harvesting receives awards sponsored by the corporates. One who
> champions the causes of climate change resorts to lies and falsehood to draw
> international attention. We have suffered this and we have to live with it.
>
> I request you to close this issue and carry forward in your own unique way
> without fear or remorse. Hope you will do that to keep your honour and
> dignity.
>
> With best wishes,
>
> Achyut
>
> On 5 January 2011 17:04, bimal pandia <bimalpan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > To
> > Sri Suparno Satpathy,
> > Chairman of Srimati Nandini Satpathy Memorial Trust
>
> > Sub: You have resorted to obscene plagiarism
>
> > Dear Suparno babu,
>
> > Kindly go through the followings:
> > 1. That on 28.12.2010 I found an article titled 'A special package of lies
> > from the govt. of Odisha' published in webportalwww.orissabarta.com(
> >http://orissabarta.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4...
> > ).
> > 2. That Suparno Satpathy, Chairman SNSMT, has been shown as author of that
> > article.
> > 2. That *this is complete cut and paste* *of my article 'A Package of
> > lies'* (baring change of two names whom I have quoted and deletion of
> > other names whom I have quoted in my writing) which I had posted in
> > various e-groups and my own blogwww.bimalpandia.blogspot.comon
> > 23.12.2010. In other words, *this is lewd plagiarism to the core.*
> > 3. That the only changes in the article that the website shows as yours are
> > as follows: (a) Substitution of two names, 'Annada Mishra of Bankia
> > village in Sonepur district' with 'Girdhar Pradhan of Chendipada at Angul
> > district', and 'Anata Bariha, a small farmer of Dhatuk village in Balangir
> > district' with 'Dinu , a small farmer of Balangir district'; (b) Deletion
> > of names (whom I had quoted) Ashok Pradhan, Murari Prasad Purohit, Saroj
> > Mohanty, Bijay Dishari, M. Govindu and Daktar Bhoi; and (c) Deletion of
> > inverted commas for quoted portions whose names have been deleted.
> > 4. That though you have not made much changes to my article, at one place
> > where you have tried to do something different, you have only become more
> > funny. For example you have substituted '*“I am being told that I will get
> > only 1,200 rupees compensation for the lost crop in crop in my one and half
> > acre holding,” informs Ananta and adds “I had spent 20,000 rupees on the
> > crop*.” with *“I have been offered a 1,200 rupees compensation for my
> > lost crop on my one and half acre holding,” said Dinu and he added “I had
> > spent 20,000 rupees on this crop which is completely ruined.*”
> > 5. That this kind of theft of my creation and blatant plagiarism is unseen
> > and unaccepted in a civil world.
> > 6. That from the way you have made the posting and the way you have funnily
> > tried to change names, clear indications emanate that the said act has been
> > done purportedly and intentionally with a clear malafide intention to claim
> > my article as yours.
> > 6. That on the very day when I found out that my article has been posted as
> > your article, onwww.orissabarta.com(on 28.12.2010), I sent you a
> > personal mail.
> > 7. That fromwww.orissabarta.comandwww.snsmt.orgwebsites and from
> > google search engine, I came to learn that you are a heir to Smt Nandi
> > Satpathyji.
> > 8. That since my father had close political relationship with Nandini
> > Satpathyji, I first sent you a personal email at addresses
> > editororissaba...@gmail.com,
> > i...@snsmt.org. Since, I do not have your personal email ID I collected
> > emails from websites ofwww.orissabarta.comandwww.snsmt.org.
> > 9. That I had requested you to kindly say sorry and remove the post from
> >www.orissabarta.com. I had also told you that I will wait for few days for
> > your reply and if you do not reply quickly I shall make the issue public and
> > may take other recourse claim compensation for infringement into my
> > creation.
> > 10. That the text of that mail has been posted in my blog
> >www.bimalpandia.blogspot.comunder heading 'blatant plagiarism'.
> > 12. That you did not fit it necessary to say sorry or remove the article
> > fromwww.orissabarta.com. Hence, I made the issue public and posted in few
> > Odisha centric e-groups.
> > 13. That since I have made that post, I have received a lot of calls and
> > mails from many readers who have expressed their agony, distraught,
> > displeasure and rejection of your act.
> > 14. That many well wishers have advised me to post both articles - my
> > original article and my article which you have posted as yours in
> >www.orissabarta.com. I will soon publish comparison of both in blog
> >www.bimalpandia.blogspot.com. (For your information I have also posted the
> > entirewww.orissabarta.comwebpage in my blog).
> > 15. That your act is absolutely unacceptable to me and I demand your
> > apology in public. Besides you must immediately remove the article from
> >www.orissabarta.comand tell in the website that the said article belongs
> > kbkroundtabl...@googlegroups.com<kbkroundtable%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com>
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> Kashipur -765015
> Rayagada Orissa
> India
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> Fax: 0674 2551130
> e-mail: achyut...@agragamee.org/agraga...@satyam.net.in
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