Indian-American journalist and author Fareed Zakaria, who has been suspended by CNN and Time magazine after he admitted to plagiarism, is now accused of publishing without attribution a passage from a 2005 book, a charge vehemently denied by him as "totally bogus".
The new allegation against 48-year-old Zakaria levelled byThe Washington Post was, however, refuted by The Daily Beast, which said theIndian-American author did contain a citation to what he quoted in his 2008book 'The Post-American World'.
Zakaria's book contains a quote from former Intel Corp chiefexecutive Andy Grove about the US economic power, the Post said.
It said that the first edition of Zakaria's book, whichbecame a bestseller, makes no mention of the comment's source, nor does apaperback version published in 2009.
In fact, the Post said, Grove's comment was published threeyears earlier in "Three Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Powerto the East," by former Commerce Department official Clyde V Prestowitz,who is attached with the Economic Strategy Institute, an eminent think tank.
However, Zakaria defended his book.
In an interview to the Post he called the allegation"totally bogus" because the book "is not an academic work whereeverything has to be acknowledged and footnoted."
"People are piling on with every grudge orvendetta," Zakaria told the paper.
Allegations and counter-allegations are flying in the USmedia after Zakaria was suspended recently for a month by his employers CNN andTime magazine in the wake of charges that his column about gun laws for Time'sAugust 20 issue includes a paragraph that is remarkably similar to one JillLepore wrote in April for a New Yorker article on the National RifleAssociation. Zakaria apologised for it.
