She also lifted sentences verbatim from Paul Romer& #39;s piece. Ironically, Shamika doesn& #39;t shy away from calling herself India& #39;s most trusted "COVID calculator". A few days ago Marathi daily Loksatta& #39;s Brahmin editor Girish Kuber was caught red-handed for plagiarising verbatim 2/6

from scholar Andrew Lilico& #39;s blog. In the past, Kuber stole from Govind Talwalkar& #39;s article on Charles Dickens published in Saadhana. Proud Gaud Saraswat Brahmin journo Rajdeep Sardesai routinely copies tweets from other handles and has been called out from time to time 3/6

In 2016, Savarna columnist and right-wing bigot Sreemoy Talukdar was caught lifting from The Hindu Business Line& #39;s article. In 2017, Savarna liberal journo Swati Chaturvedi copied two of The Economist correspondent Stanley Pignal& #39;s tweets verbatim in her articles. 4/6

In 2012, Brahmin scientist CNR Rao and 3 other researchers were accused of copied verbatim from a paper published in Applied Physics Letters. Rao was later awarded Bharat Ratna in 2013. In 2010, India Today& #39;s Aroon Purie plagiarized from an article published on Slate. 5/6

In 2008, India Today& #39;s the then Deputy Editor Damayanti Datta plagiarized from a blog. Infamous among all these is Sarvapalli Radhakrishanan& #39;s case. Radhakrishnan plagiarized extensively from his student Jadunath Sinha& #39;s thesis. Radhakrishnan was awarded Bharat Ratna in 1954. 6/6