Sorry!

I added my part to the character-slaughter of Rohan Pinto. It is debatable whether he deserves it or not. As Dilip wrote, conjecture is not evidence. Take my case. I discovered that Quantummuse.com had published one of my works under a different author's name. I assumed that Ankesh did it. I googled for Ankesh, found his site, and instead of checking with him, accused him of plagiarism. After that I did not bother to pursue the issue as I didn't care too much for the story (that was stupid). It was a lousy story anyway, written during the days when I used to think that I could write. Now, Rohan's episode rekindled my angst for my stolen work. 'Maybe I could fix that guy?' (it was not so much about the story; it was about 'how the hell can someone steal my work?')
So, I wrote about it here. Later Ankesh said-among other things :) - that he had never visited quantummuse.com. And that someone else was using his name. He wrote to Quantummuse.com asking for the IP of the person that had submitted my story. They have changed the author's name to 'Suman Kumar'. Am I happy now? No. I have this bad taste in my mouth. I should have taken it easy and performed due diligence as Ankesh pointed out, instead of pouncing on the issue without enough evidence. I am such a small mind. I apologize Ankesh, for I accused you without enough proof (but for your name appearing under my work, on a site that you say you have never visited).
And it is so damn tough to accept your mistake. It is like swallowing a whole Pumpkin. Moral of the story: Evidence in hand is worth a million conjectures in the web. Damn!
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