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Biplab Goswami, who penned the story of Kiran Rao's critically-acclaimed film "Laapataa Ladies", on Saturday dismissed the claims that the movie's plot has been plagiarised. Many social media users earlier this week shared a short clip from 2019 Arabic short film "Burqa City", noticing similarities between the stories of the two movies. In "Burqa City", a newlywed man sets out to find his wife after she is mistaken for another woman in a burqa. Similarly, "Laapataa Ladies" follows Deepak as he searches for his new bride, who is accidentally swapped with another ghoonghat-clad woman on a train. In a statement, posted on his official Instagram page, Goswami said the allegations are completely "untrue". "Our story, characters, and dialogues are 100% original. Any allegations of plagiarism are completely untrue. These allegations not just undermine my efforts as a writer, but also the tireless efforts of the entire filmmaking team," he said. Goswami also said the screenplay for "Laap
Harvard University on Wednesday sought to move beyond the firestorm brought on by the plagiarism allegations, congressional testimony and resignation of Claudine Gay, the school's first Black president, as it seeks a new leader and tries to heal divisions at the elite Ivy League school. The search for a new president will begin "in due course" and will include "broad engagement and consultation with the Harvard community", the Harvard Corporation, the school's 11-member governing board said in statement on Tuesday, adding that it will be driven by "core values of excellence, inclusiveness, and free inquiry and expression". "At a time when strife and division are so prevalent in our nation and our world, embracing and advancing that mission -- in a spirit of common purpose -- has never been more important," leadership said. As it looks for a new president, the corporation also needs to examine its role in Gay's appearance before Congress, according to Khalil Gibran Muhammad, who ...
Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigned on Tuesday amid plagiarism accusations and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing where she was unable to say unequivocally that calls on campus for the genocide of Jews would violate the school's conduct policy. Gay announced her departure, which came just months into her tenure, in a letter to the Harvard community. She and the presidents of MIT and the University of Pennsylvania came under fire last month for their lawyerly answers to a line of questioning from New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, who asked whether calling for the genocide of Jews would violate the colleges' code of conduct. The three presidents had been called before the Republican-led House Committee on Education and the Workforce to answer accusations that universities were failing to protect Jewish students amid rising fears of antisemitism worldwide and fallout from Israel's intensifying war in Gaza, which faces heightened criticism for the mounting ...