One bald man is a depressed soul. Two bald men is a mutual admiration club. Three or more bald men is an association. The inimitable T.S. SATYAN writes of Baldies' International, the country's only thinktank for follicularly-challenged people.
"One evening, eyebrows went up when a Sikh gentleman dropped in and asked that he be enrolled as member. He was requested to remove his turban to prove that he was bald. As women were present, the inspection was quietly conducted in the bath room. When the Sardarji emerged, there were bear-hugs of welcome. A toast was drunk for his glistening pate and good health."
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I read Churumuri via an RSS reader. The articles here are very good, which is actually why I find it really irritating when you ask me to “click on the T.S. SATYAN page on the top-right of the screen for the full text and come back here to leave a comment”. There is no T.S.Satyan page when I read your article on my RSS reader. Try reading the following link to see what I am saying. Also, let me know if YOU are able to see a T.S.Satyan page in the top-right corner of the page whose link you can find below.
http://churumuri.wordpress.com/2006/05/02/baldies-of-the-world-unite-youve-nothing-to-lose/
Henceforth, please don’t do this. Leave at least a link there. Why should somebody go read it there and come back here to read a comment? And why do we need the extra summary when we can go read the article directly?
namma jana anta swalpa oraTAgi saligeyinda hELiddIni. tappu tiLiyabEDi.
Best,
-nIlagrIva
I agree with nilagriva and that’s something that had been irritating me for quite some time. Even though I don’t read it via RSS and I do find the “TS Satyan page on top-right corner” or wherever, in this day and age asking people to go click somewhere else and come back and leave a comment is to take the readers for granted.
Although I understand the problem, there are very good journalistic reasons for all this. The full text appears on a separate page because some readers have been complaining about the rather large length going into several scrolls of some pieces on the “home page”. But merely publishing a large piece in a separate page will not help. It needs to be advertised for the reader to notice that a recent addition has been made. Which is where the summary comes in. Unfortunately, wordpress has no facility for comments to be left on the contributors page. Hence you have to come back. If somebody has a solution for all this, I would love to hear it.
One way I have seen that problem (of main page becoming too long) being handled is to provide only the first few lines (teaser) of the article on main page with a link below which takes you to the full article and the comments. I am sure WordPress has a theme/template which allows one to do that. So your main page will look like this:
CHURUMURI POLL: Is a stock scam on the way?
May 2nd, 2006 by KP
Down 490 points in the first few minutes of trading one morning; up 532 points through the rest of the day. Down the moment rumours about P-notes and the “Mauritius Route” circulate; up the moment the finance ministry denies. Down when the demat scam hits the ceiling; up during weekend trading.
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Baldies of the world unite, you’ve nothing to lose
May 2nd, 2006 by TS Satyan
Whenever I see a person with a shining bald pate, my mind goes back to my Delhi days and I remember some of my friends who were members of an elite association named Baldies International.
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