Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Did Barkha Dutt plagiarize a comparison?

Back in 2012, I Khan visited the Bay Area and held a fundraiser for his political party.  Yours truly wrote a blog post on that event.
https://cemendtaur.blogspot.com/2012_10_28_archive.html
One sentence of the write-up being: “The Mick Jagger look alike Pakistani politician dyes his hair regularly and does daily workout to maintain his fashion-model appearance.”

More recently this article appeared in the Washington Post.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/07/14/barkha-dutt-as-pakistans-nawaz-sharif-is-sent-to-jail-his-rival-imran-khan-should-not-celebrate/?utm_term=.ce7483bb4863

The author writes: “Khan is a glamorous, Mick Jagger-lookalike cricketer turned politician, who opponents say has the blessings of the shadowy deep state that controls the country.”

What do you say about the comparison?  Plagiarism or mere coincidence?