How It Happened?

Mr Kandula Varaha Narasimha Sarma alias Kavana Sarma of 53, 6th Main, 5th Cross, Tata Nagar, Bangalore 560 002 has denied that the work ‘Mahatbutha Mandula Mantrikudu’ he has serialised in the January to July 2009 issues of the Hyderabad magazine ‘Rachana’ as ‘a historical novel’ is not a plagiarised Telugu translation of extensive passages from ‘In Quest of Panacea’ the copyrighted definitive biography of Doctor Yellapragada SubbaRow written by me in collaboration with Dr Edgar L Milford.

He has made the denial through his lawyers in response to the charges I have made in a legal notice served on him.

He also insists that he has not committed any fraud or breach of faith by inserting at various points in the ‘historical novel’ excerpts from my scans of Dr. SubbaRow’s correspondence that he obtained from me through our common friend, Prof V Sitaramam, on the false pretext that he will use them, in the words of Prof. Sitaramam, for ‘an analysis of his (Dr SubbaRow’s) drive that paved the way to his discoveries’ for presentation at an NIN seminar commemorating Dr SubbaRow. He in fact presented no such analysis of the correspondence at the seminar. His defence is that the scans were provided to him not for any limited purpose.

I am presenting below a chart with the purported ‘historical novel’ on the left-side column and the corresponding passages from ‘In Quest of Panacea’ on the right-side column, indicating also the excerpts from the scans and a photograph stolen from ‘In Quest of Panacea’.

Please go to page 6 of Rachana January 2009 to start reading the plagiarisation

-- S P K Gupta

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