Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People

Thanks for the link, but that’s ‘Animal’s People’, not ‘Animal People’.

Fixed, thanks.

there goes ash linking the boring falstaff again. I thought 2 weeks without linking fallstaff is a big run for desipundit it would have gone to the 3rd week if not for this link.

you have a hat tip policy, go read that. that should apply to the link policy too.

” Admittedly, you might be the best blogger around and every post you write might be worth featuring. But you must understand that we love variety and do not want to be painted as patronizing specific bloggers.”

or maybe the case is this

” Don’t even think of colluding with a fellow blogger and indulge in “you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yoursâ€?. We can spot trends and patterns quite well plus that is pretty desperate.”

by these standards the 5 million links to falstaff should be considered quite a secret “trend” and the “desparation” subtle. So I understand desipundit people not spotting it.

AntiFalstaffSlave, are you contesting the quality of posts that I link to?

Yes, I do link to certain bloggers more frequently. Aside from your nemesis Falstaff, there’s Anita Bora, Akshay Mahajan, Baradwaj Rangan, Sayesha and several more. That’s because they are good writers and I find many of their posts worth featuring on DesiPundit. Also, I’m a human being with two eyes, a full-time job and only 24 hours in a day! There are only so many blogs that I can read, so obviously the pool that I draw from cannot be more encompassing.

This is true of other contributors too which is why we have a tip-line. Instead of protesting the links to Falstaff, why don’t you be more pro-active and send us links that you think ought to be on DesiPundit?

AntiFalstaffSlave, I’m just happy to see that someone is reading our hat tip policy.

Listen, i like you guys (u and patrix) and all that but somehow this sameness of links gets me angry.

i also think you guys have something against a set of bloggers that i read. they have big independent readerships but still many hat tips i have given for anoosrini, anti, chenthil, adisht, chandrachoodan, ravages, hawkeye, ammani, have been ignored.

i dont know what your history is with these guys, maybe even those bloggers dont care about this, but it makes people like me who aren’t ‘in the know’ angry. as if the blogs i follow isnt desipundit worthy enough. i am thinking of a link that was discussing desipundit biases but can find it.

ash,

to each his own. i dont think falstaff is all that awesome. very specific niche, narrow. but i respect your liking for him.

Well, I’m not aware that we have a bias against any bloggers as such, although every contributor has their own likes/dislikes. I read Anantha and Ammani regularly, and have linked to them in the past. If you do a search, you will find that Aadisht, Chenthil, Ravages, Hawkeye etc have also been linked in the past.

If you feel a section of the blogosphere is under-represented, perhaps you’d care to help us rectify that? I’m serious – write to Patrix if you’d like to contribute to DesiPundit.

[Wow, this is certainly a new way of recruiting contributors ]

I cant believe someone created an account called ‘antiFalstaffSlave’ and sent me a link to this. But I am impressed with the time commitment and a honorable mention

Well, on the topic,I think patrix & co is doing a good job with DP. Sometimes I dont like links to some posts that gives just one side of the story, the link to confused on rajinikanth etc is a case in point – and sometimes I receive mails from readers saying they hattip’ed me and it was ignored etc. These are normal things when you try and run a website like this, you can’t always be free from criticism.

I cud never run a website like DP. I’ve too small a fuse. I’d fight with critics way faster than patrix does . You guys are way too patient. No matter how fair you are, I know there is someone whose gonna complain. Its part of life. I say this and I’ll still go and complain.

Although this isn’t a comprehensive listing, Thejo has a constantly running cron job that lists links made on DesiPundit [yup! Falstaff is among the top].

Also on the aside, Chandrachoodan=Ravages.

And ditto Ash…no biases against any bloggers. In any case, we have a bunch of contributors who have disparate tastes and preferences so I like to think we link to a variety of posts. Of course, linking frequency of contributors may give a different impression.

You free market fundamentalists! Not one link to the Jagadguru? Patrix, if you just publish your rate list instead of keeping it hush hush, most of these problems would not occur.

Ravi,

Ash has kept an invitation open. you should just join DP and link Jagadguru everyday. Save DP from blasphemy.