It is all about integrity

People may have put the information there for others to read or benefit from in some way, but taking it and claiming it as your own without giving credit to the author is just plain literary theft. — 123rf.com

“DO you want to know the main reason people plagiarise other people’s work?” asked my friend Dilla suddenly.

It was one of those moments when after three hours, copious cups of tea and vadai, it seemed like we had actually and amazingly exhausted all topics of conversation. It had been almost a whole year since we last met and there was a lot of catching up to do. We had updated each other on the local gossip, what was new in our lives, made plans for the next 10 years, presented unsolicited and mostly unworkable fashion and diet solutions to each other and made some very helpful recommendations to the restaurant staff on how to improve their vadai.