From Digital Partners India Trust
Dear Friends of Digital Partners
Movement:
In the past
couple months we have seen a most unethical effort by
some people who continue to use their ability to
leverage the dollars they do not have to entice people
in believing what is not true.
The event
that triggered this separation was the charges leveled
by Aditya Sood of Bangalore that Akhtar Badshah had
plagiarized his article that was published by Economic
& Political Weekly in Oct 2000. We are putting the
articles on the Web so that you all may judge for
yourself. Badshah not only put the article “From
Access to Outcomes” on the net, he also declared
that the article was written “with Satish Jha”. It
may also be noted that even the title of the paper was
not original and was borrowed from another paper by
Morino Institute. While agreeing with the broad
perspective of the article that Satish Jha provided to
that article, he dissociates himself with the actual
writing of the article as he had not seen Aditya
Sood’s article as Sood sent the article only to the
US office of Digital Partners. As a former Editor of
The Times of India Group, as co-founder of the premier
national Hindi Daily Janasatta he has been shocked
that someone with aspirations to a leadership role
could engage in plagiarism.
The Board
of Trsutees of Digital Partners India therefore has
asked the Board of Digital Partners Seattle to take
necessary actions to preserve the dignity of the name
of the organization that was founded by an honourable
person like Dr Craig Warren Smith, a Buddhist for 35
years and a visiting professor at Harvard University
and a Fellow of MIT Media Lab who has since launched
the Digital Divide.Org movement.
Craig Smith is the founder of Digital
Partners Seattle who hired Akhtar Badshah to assist
him. However now Akhtar Badshah has no rights to
interfere in the interests of Digital Partners India.
Digital
Partners India was founded as a Trust on 15th
May 2001. O P Taneja resigned as its Trustee in
September 2001. Rashid Kidwai resigned in September
2002. Atul Gupta ceased to be a Trustee on 15th
May 2003.
Satish Jha
was appointed the Managing Trustee and President in
June 2001. He has been running the operations of
Digital Partners India since. It is he who has paid
all the Bills of Digital Partners with a fraction of
the bills being reimbursed by Digital Partners
Seattle.
Shashi
Ullal, former President, Managing Director and later
Vice Chair of Hughs Escorts, is the chair of Digital
Partners India Trust.
For Digital
Partners India Trust
