A valued contributor has written to the Editor today complaining "Lot of editing. It's your discretion only. No issue. Thanks." When his post was published today, a paragraph was edited out. His last post was not published at all. No doubt, he appeared to be a good observer and contributed his views frequently, but sometimes it appeared that he was in a hurry and often sent message enquiring about the fate of his posts.
2. Earlier a post by one of the persons involved in the present SC case controversy was withheld and ultimately it was not published. While his writing suited his strategy, it didn't fit into the Editor's strategy. He was so informed.
3. Other posts by some of our valued contributors could not be published as it was the Chronicle's strategy not to antagonise or infuriate people or arouse somebody's hostility.
4. An atmosphere conducive to discussion was sought to be created but then, one may ask whether this strategy did actually work. Let us make it clear without an iota of doubt that we failed. But it was not a miserable tantalizing fall. We could achieve some amount of success. Let us make it clear and make things free from doubts that Shri Asthana did write to us a midnight mail, although he did not disclose his strategy and was speaking something not being the immediate point of concern that fateful night.
5. Pensioners cards are being played at our end with significant strategies and results. While a pensioner Association could have its own strategy and may like to outsmart other players in the field, we do not have any such ambitions or aspirations.
6. Editing is done sometimes to weed out intemperate utterances. Certain posts are not published sometimes for the fear that it may mar the prospects of having some understanding among the warring groups of pensioners. We have withheld/edited GN Sridharan's post once. But he was one who was found tolerating us. We have omitted certain portions of a particular statement published today. Pensioners should have a right to know all about matters of their concern. But we are pensioners many of whom being in their advanced ages. And sometimes we tempt to write in a intemperate way. By and large our good leaders have understood us.
7. Our burden today is to inform the readers and our learned contributors that all the mails may not be published. Some posts may be ready but kept aside for a suitable date for uploading. Some sentences are edited for the fear that the same may infuriate the other groups. Some other posts are delayed for copy editing, font management etc. mostly problems arising out of capital letters used in the posts. Some posts are immediately copied and uploaded without any editing for it is free from blemishes and usually they wrote non-controversial posts. Yesterday it so happened, such a post was immediately published without going through each and every word. The post showed the date of hearing as 12th October 2014 which was pointed out by another reader and had to be later corrected.
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9. In between, very rarely though, you could ignore an autobiographical piece of writing entitled 'My LIC days - My Life, My struggles'. When three persons worked with different tastes in an organisation, there arose problems. These sketches, when published, may be ignored.
This's for the present. Will write more about my experiments with editing whenever need arises.