By K. C. Bhatt Plagiarism is a sin that must be dealt with in a Talibani style of justice. A writer or an artist or a scientist found copying others’ work without acknowledging it would be given a choice of either keeping mum afterwards or being stoned to death. It happens that today people are exposed to an incredible amount of text due to the easy and cheap availability of the internet. It has improved the standard of education among the people considerably. People on an average daily consume thousands of words reading news or other literary works, besides so much of crap available as propaganda of one or another kind. In this clamour fewer of them have the inclination or patience to discover the real source of an idea or work which helped to enlighten them. For the people doing some serious research, it is easier now to access the most important reference material almost at no cost and without going to a library — except if it is not in the discipline of science, where you might need a laboratory. So in most cases distance learning has become the norm and universities need a movie or a rock star to promote one of their expansive courses which can be learned privately and almost without leaving home. But it happens so often that the words of a renowned literary person return to you from the mouth of someone who is extraordinarily plebian, in that he has no idea from where he had received them. He uses them as if they are his own. He fails to understand that they must have been passed down to him after they were used by thousands of people before him. Similar could be about the concepts of intellectuals which simplify the arcane problems we face in a way that we are led to finding solutions on account of understanding better the problems. Most of the time the society makes the problems more complicated due to its mediocre intellectual capacity and a penchant for doing politics with them. So only politicians are not responsible for making things worse from being bad. It is one person of genius and unimpeachable integrity who sees things clearly and takes the pain to explain them for the souls keen on receiving them. So not everyone in society is a crook, however hopeless it might be. It is done with the sole objective of driving forward the things which have become stagnant or are about to go into reverse gear. Such concepts or ideas, once lifted without acknowledging the creator of the same, in the words they were created or using some kind of word-play, goes unnoticed in a world overwhelmed by a deluge of words, images or graphics, for too long, in an age of the internet. It might take research of another kind to credit the creator of the same with an onerous task at hand which could prove thankless too, if considered from the perspective of a plagiarist. So a threat of a Talibani-style justice might prove the most effective tool to deter the pirates of intellectual products. Because it has often happened that a case of piracy was discovered long after the inventor and the pirate have passed away and while the inventor never made a single penny out of his product -- the pirate made a fortune out of the same.