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Chetan Bhagat lacks originality? 'One Indian Girl' allegedly plagiarized

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Controversies and legal notices continue to dog best-selling author Chetan Bhagat. This time, Bhagat's One Indian Girl, seems to be in legal trouble just six months after its release.
 
Anvita Bajpai, a Bengaluru-based author sued the writer, claiming that the ‘characters, places and emotional flow’ of his book had been lifted from one of her stories 'Drawing Parallels' from the book 'Life, Odds & Ends'. 
 
"I handed a copy of my book to Chetan Bhagat at the