EXCLUSIVE: She’s Baaaaack! Kaavya’s First Post-Plagiarism Writing
Obsessed as we are with the Kaavya Viswanathan of the moment, we almost forgot to keep tabs on Kaavya 1.0!
The critically acclaimed author of How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life has resurfaced with what we believe is her first piece of post-plagiarism writing: a profile of Janet Hanson for a glossy magazine put out by Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business.
Our verdict: Not a bad piece, really — guess Kaavya can write after all. Except she kinda buries the lede:
“When asked what piece of advice she would give other aspiring businesswomen, Janet doesn’t hesitate. ‘Maintain integrity at all costs,’ she says. ‘Personal integrity is the most important quality anyone can have, no matter what you’re doing. You need people who will recommend you without a single reservation.’ “
Too late, Janet. Too late.
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October 11th, 2006 at 12:31 am
I thought it was really boring.
October 11th, 2006 at 7:24 am
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October 11th, 2006 at 9:30 am
The first woman to be promoted to sales management at Goldman and Sachs.
Crikes, she’s leading an article with a passive voice sentence? Hey Kaavya, maybe you should take Newswriting 101 at New Brunswick Community College. Writing’s not so easy when you’re doing it on your own, is it?
And Mike, right, it’s bloody boring. It’s the sort of crap a talented 9th grader could churn out for the “young writers” section of any local newspaper.
January 29th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
I feel sorry for Kaavya for what she has/had to go through. At the same time I can not help but mention few things. Her father hails from a conservative Brahmin family. Smart intelligent and flashy. Drove nothing less that a Mercedes, 15 years ago, when he was just a Trainee Doctor in Edinburgh! He got into the Training program without writing the British Licensing Exams unlike most of the Indian Physicians who ended up in The U.K. When I asked him how did he manage it he simply looked at me and did not answer it. No doubt he is smart but in this world that is nor enough. He knew the short cuts. Kaavya might have learnt few tricks from him.
February 20th, 2007 at 9:57 am
Wow. I’d've loved to’ve been a fly on the wall when KV was typing this. Once upon a time, she was petitioned to write an op-ed for the NYT; now she scrounges for scraps in the HUWIB Newsletter.