<p>Indian-American journalist and author Fareed Zakaria, who has been suspended by CNN and Time magazine after he admitted to plagiarism, is now accused of publishing without attribution a passage from a 2005 book, a charge vehemently denied by him as "totally bogus".<br /><br /></p>.<p>The new allegation against 48-year-old Zakaria levelled by The Washington Post was, however, refuted by The Daily Beast, which said the Indian-American author did contain a citation to what he quoted in his 2008 book 'The Post-American World'.<br /><br />Zakaria's book contains a quote from former Intel Corp chief executive Andy Grove about the US economic power, the Post said.<br /><br />It said that the first edition of Zakaria's book, which became a bestseller, makes no mention of the comment's source, nor does a paperback version published in 2009.<br /><br />In fact, the Post said, Grove's comment was published three years earlier in "Three Billion <br />New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Power to the East," by former Commerce Department official Clyde V Prestowitz, who is attached with the Economic Strategy Institute, an eminent think tank.<br /><br />However, Zakaria defended his book.<br /><br />In an interview to the Post he called the allegation "totally bogus" because the book "is not an academic work where everything has to be acknowledged and footnoted."<br />"People are piling on with every grudge or vendetta," Zakaria told the paper.<br /><br />Allegations and counter-allegations are flying in the US media after Zakaria was suspended recently for a month by his employers CNN and Time magazine in the wake of charges that his column about gun laws for Time's August 20 issue includes a paragraph that is remarkably similar to one Jill Lepore wrote in April for a New Yorker article on the National Rifle Association. Zakaria apologised for it.</p>
<p>Indian-American journalist and author Fareed Zakaria, who has been suspended by CNN and Time magazine after he admitted to plagiarism, is now accused of publishing without attribution a passage from a 2005 book, a charge vehemently denied by him as "totally bogus".<br /><br /></p>.<p>The new allegation against 48-year-old Zakaria levelled by The Washington Post was, however, refuted by The Daily Beast, which said the Indian-American author did contain a citation to what he quoted in his 2008 book 'The Post-American World'.<br /><br />Zakaria's book contains a quote from former Intel Corp chief executive Andy Grove about the US economic power, the Post said.<br /><br />It said that the first edition of Zakaria's book, which became a bestseller, makes no mention of the comment's source, nor does a paperback version published in 2009.<br /><br />In fact, the Post said, Grove's comment was published three years earlier in "Three Billion <br />New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Power to the East," by former Commerce Department official Clyde V Prestowitz, who is attached with the Economic Strategy Institute, an eminent think tank.<br /><br />However, Zakaria defended his book.<br /><br />In an interview to the Post he called the allegation "totally bogus" because the book "is not an academic work where everything has to be acknowledged and footnoted."<br />"People are piling on with every grudge or vendetta," Zakaria told the paper.<br /><br />Allegations and counter-allegations are flying in the US media after Zakaria was suspended recently for a month by his employers CNN and Time magazine in the wake of charges that his column about gun laws for Time's August 20 issue includes a paragraph that is remarkably similar to one Jill Lepore wrote in April for a New Yorker article on the National Rifle Association. Zakaria apologised for it.</p>