Chetan Bhagat slammed for plagiarism by English scholar

November 23, 2014 14:29

Best-selling author Chetan Bhagat has run into another controversy in Bihar. An English scholar from the state has accused him of plagiarism.

Dr Birbal Jha, director of British Lingua, a spoken English institute in Patna, has alleged that Bhagat had lifted the plot of his latest novel, Half Girlfriend, from his bilingual play, Englishia Boli.

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