Some Messages Received on Suparno Satpathy's Plagiarism

Since I have made Suparno Satpathy's plagiarism public I have received many phone calls and emails. Posting few of those below which also includes one which castigated me.

Tathagat Satpathy: I am not lucky enough to have an unified family, shall deem it a mighty favor if you will not involve the name of late ms nandini satpathy or tathagata (mine) with any undesirable and highly objectionable acts such as the one you have pointed out.

Ranjan Panda: I strongly CONDEMN this kind of act by anyone.  If this Mr. Suparno Satpathy is so poor in knowledge, he should have begged you for a story and I know Bimal you have been very generous to share valuable writings and information with others.

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! 

Arjun Purohit: I am with you,Bimal. Plagiarism is worst kind of theft, and it must be condemned unequivocally. I am glad that you publicly unmasked the culprit.

Varsha Mehta: The Chairman of an organisation (SNSMT), no less, resorting to such plagiarism indicates the poor standards by which they operate, I suppose! Through this comment, I'd like to request Shri Suparno Satpathy to withdraw his article from Orissabarta, and offer an unconditional apology to the original author of this article, failing which he should be prepared to face the dire consequences that are reserved for such intellectual crimes. 

Bikas Pati: Its really horrible to know about the real performance of such so called intellectuals. Hope your letter will certainly teach him the lesson. He might have got the education of doing such activities from abroad.

Bikas Rath: You can approach the Press Council of India.

Jagannath Chatterjee: You have done the right thing by writing this open letter. I can understand how you feel. It is very difficult to tolerate plagiarism and rightly so.

Sanjeev Karmee: This is a very sad incident.

Saket Sahu: This is a sad and bad tradition. If someone is copying something...simply he/she should take the permission from the original author...but our Copyright Act is not so strict and very mild...anyway Mr Satpathy should be punished...if he has violated the Act...and he should be debarred from writing for a period...

Adikanda Biswal: Congratulate you for your bold action. Hope this will teach big bosses like him a good lesson. 

Ghanashyam Panda: I am strongly in support of you. This is very bad and I condemn this. You can post a comparison of both articles for others to see and compare.


Mukta Rath:  I see no reason is ruling out infringement on the part of Mr. Pandia . The Chairman of a highly decorated social cause organization, Mr. Suparno Satpathy is an awarded author him self specializing on socio-political issues of Odisha, I am sure many on this e-forum will agree with me on this. I strongly feel that a plot to defame him has been put to play...... I am well aware of stunts to create baseless sensational news so that an unknown person gets free publicity. It is very easy to spit muck on a decorated personality and succeed in the said stunt, higher the grade of the decorated person- maximum is the publicity. Out here I see no point in explaining the levels of decoration between Mr. Suparno Satpathy and Mr. Bimal Pandia.