Everytime I steal, it goes without notice!

By John Cheeran
A majority of Indians prefer to read The Times of India everyday.
So The Timesof India must be a good, decent newspaper. After all readers are leaders.
On Tuesday, June 20, I read an anchor piece on the business pages of TOI, Mumbai edition.
The piece was headlined "An elegy to the death of a mad market."
It had a terrific intro. Let me quote it. "Something in you dies when a friend does well." But who says it, is it the bylinewallah or someone else?
Originality and honesty are not the virtues that journalists care to keep.
Gore Vidal's famous lines are stolen for the intro and the readers are left to marvel at Times writer's brilliant piece of effort.
In fact since the intro was so arresting I could not read further.
Not for nothing Austrian writer Karl Kraus said about journalists: " Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes."
May be I just want to prove that how right was Vidal.
In an age when novelists steal whole chapters and columnists lift columns wordfor word, a stolen intro is a good act.
Long live the freedom to steal, long live The Times of India.