[Reader-list] Shocking plagiarism by Ghulam Nabi Khayal (famous Kashmiri journalist)

[Kshmendra Kaul]

Ghulam Nabi Khayal is well know in Kashmir as a veteran poet, writer, research scholar, journalist. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1975 for "Gaashir Munaar (Essays)". Currently he is Editor-in-Chief of "Voice of Kashmir".   More BIO info given below.
 
"Greater Kashmir" of 27/06/2010 has Khayal reviewing two books in the piece "Two books, two authors - Both are significant in their own right - THOUGHTFUL THOUGHTFUL". 
http://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/2010/Jun/27/two-books-two-authors-4.asp
 
Being somewhat familiar with the caliber of Ghulam Nabi Khayal I was quite impressed with some of background details he has included. Impressed but uncomfortable enough to be suspicious.
 
Web-searches revealed shocking plagiarism by Ghulam Nabi Khayal; Word by Word; Punctuation-Mark by Punctuation-Mark with some minor exceptions. 
 
 
1. Complete Paragraph No. 3 plagiarised from 
    http://www.www.helium.com/items/1613344-Classical-Lit-Mythology
 
    (starting with)     Plato's Republic is a piece of philosophic literature written around 380 BC in Ancient Greece by this Athens-born philosopher who was the teacher and mentor of Aristotle............................. (ending with)      Plato says that the best form of government is a type of aristocracy where the philosopher-kings rule.
 
 
2. Complete Paragraph No. 4 plagiarised from 
    http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/netshots/republic.htm
 
    (starting with)     After the death of Socrates, a number of his associates tried to re-create in a literary medium the philosophical conversations which he had engaged in with his followers. ............ (ending with)      Of course, the best known works in this genre are the twenty-three dialogues written by Plato, of which the Republic is an important example.
 
 
3. Complete Paragraph No. 5 plagiarised from 
    http://www.novelguide.com/therepublic/themeanalysis.html
 
    (starting with)     The theme of the Republic is very complicated in some ways, yet it comes together perfectly to formulate Plato’s attitudes about society and government ................ (ending with)     Only philosophers can serve as just kings because only this select group of people has knowledge of the forms, a vague, otherworldly kind of absolute truth.
 
 
4.  Complete Paragraph No. 6 plagiarised from
     http://www.www.helium.com/items/1613344-Classical-Lit-Mythology
 
     (starting with)    One of the main things discussed in The Republic is defining what justice is and why it is important. ............. (ending with)  The unjust person always wants more and his greed will always make him miserable.

 
BIO info of Khayal from: http://www.voiceofkashmir.org/intro.htm
Currently he is Editor-in-Chief of "Voice of Kashmir" and is credited with having started the first Kashmiri weekly "Wattan" in 1965 followed by "Iqbal" in Urdu. He has also worked as J&K correspondent for National and International media ( India Today, Statesman, TIME, The Guardian, Voice of America, Illustrated Weekly of India etc)
 
Besides being on various cultural committees, he is currently also a member of the Advisory Committee of the Allama Iqbal Institute of the University of Kashmir and it's Urdu advisory Board.
 
Kshmendra