You stopped visiting once Bong Breaker took off on world tour.

No.

I think I read about kannadiga sikhs(native) before. can someone verify this(paging razib)

Yep. They’re mostly in Bidar, Karnataka, close to the border of Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. They’re not just Kannadigas but also Telugu speaking people. Guru Nanak is supposed to have travelled through Bidar on his way to Sri Lanka, and most of the Sikhs there were converted locals, and not Punjabis. I have a friend who’s one such Dakhni(Deccani) Sikh. Their food habits are closer to the locals’. Another interesting Sikh I met was a from a Hindu Maharashtrian family. In their family one male every generation follows Sikhism. The story went – some ancestors of his had allowed a couple of Sikh soldiers to stay in their house for the night. That night the house was attacked by some dacoits, and the two soldiers fought them off, protecting the host’s family. In gratitude, the family promised them that one son would follow the Sikh faith every generation.

Considering the subject matter, I doubt your average desi uncle and auntie would want to give their darling daughters such a book in case it gave them any “funny ideas”

And any features of the book should primarily be the author’s, not her “handlers’.”

It surprises me that even a chick-lit book would be considered to be so marketable that it would have gotten such a large deal. Maybe they thought that all Indian families would buy a copy for their daughters? In hardcover no less?

It can be a depressingly enron-ish world at times!

No, I don’t think you’re being mean. Plagiarism is wrong, and I can’t believe she had the balls to get it published on an international level!!! Is she in denial? or whaaaat? On one hand, I understand the pressure to please/impress at that age, but having the book published is outtacontrol!!! Is this a case of a little white lie that went too far?? I don’t know….. It’s funny that her story is about a girl who learns to let loose and live a little – plagiarizing and pretending you’re someone you are not is the exact opposite. This is even more sinister than Opal’s character, who lives and breathes Harvard and does all the right things to get in: If the allegations are founded, it seems this young author has decided that perceived success is all that matters – not the journey – and to take whatever means necessary to get to that status of perceived success. I’m not impressed!

glad i didn’t waste any money buying it…. did you click onto that blog link? i giggled out loud…people are going to be pissed…. someones title was… ‘how kaavya got freyed’…. that i laughed at as well… gotta love it.. this day and age with blogs, word is spreading like FIRE.. gone are the days of newspapers and waiting till the morning…it’s a ‘now now now’ deal…

great finds, chick pea — endless procrastination =)