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| 03 May 2006: |
The Harvard Independent reports that some passages of the novel How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life by Kaavya Viswanathan are similar to Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier. |
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| 02 May 2006: |
The media reports allege that Viswanathan copied from Can You Keep a Secret? by Sophie Kinsella and The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot.
The noted author Salman Rushdie refers Viswanathan as ‘a victim of her own ambition’.
The publisher of the novel Little, Brown and Company announces that it will not publish a revised edition of the novel and the second book under contract.
The New York Times reports that Viswanathan may have lifted text from Rushdie’s novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories. |
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| 28 April 2006: |
The DreamWorks, that has the movie rights of the novel, shelves its plans to develop the novel into a movie. |
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| 27 April 2006: |
Penguin India, the Indian distributor for the novel, receives directions from Little, Brown and Company to withdraw the novel from bookstores in India. |
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| 26 April 2006: |
Viswanathan appears on The Today Show on NBC in the USA and maintains that the similarities were ‘unintentional’. |
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| 25 April 2006: |
Newindpress.com, promoted by the New Indian Express Group, publishes the story on the plagiarism issue for the first time in the Indian media |
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| 23 April 2006: |
The Harvard Crimson, the campus newspaper of Harvard University, reports that several portions of the book appears to have been plagiarised from Sloppy Firsts and Second Helpings by Megan McCafferty. |
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| 04 April 2006: |
Little, Brown and Company releases the novel How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life. |
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