Kaavya lies between the lines

By John Cheeran
If I had $500,000 I would have just quit my job and stretched out myself on the floor and gone to sleep.
Guys and gals slog it out, cheat each other and eat each other only to survive; not for mega sums like $ 500,000.
The fact that Kaavya Viswanathan cheated her readers for money (she received $ 500,000 for How Opal Mehta Got A LIfe) and fame proves that those who are well educated and lead a good life are worse than rest of the society when it comes to dishonesty.
Even when Kavvya was caught by Harward Crimson, she maintained her elaborate lie that she just internalized whatever stuff she read from Megan McCafferty’s books.
I consider Praveen Mahajan less of an evil for admitting what he has done rather than in a denial mode.
Readers should be wary of writers such as Kaavya; readers should also be wary of those book agents who tom-tom the arrival of new wordsmiths.
Kaavya should be able to realize that world will not fall apart if she does not write anything other than an apology for her copycat act.