[NOT A CONTEST POST BECAUSE CONTEST IS OVER]
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Writing a contest post well after the last date of submission doesn’t necessarily indicate that the primary component of your unparalleled decision making process is an alcohol-induced assessment mechanism; however, you definitely qualify to represent those individualists who are not constrained by trivial factors such as time and date; who run out of the house on a sultry summer night with a bottle of Old Monk in one hand and Gulal in another, which they hurl at unsuspecting pedestrians with a barbaric scream, “HAPPY HOLI!!!” My friend being one such revolutionary performed this ‘not so widely accepted’ ritual once, demonstrating his dissent over human-defined boundaries. And he made the following observations:
1. Holi falls on a fixed non-negotiable date, and based on that scheduling, the entire nation celebrated the event a few months ago.
2. The substance in his right hand, which he deemed as gulal, was actually peanut masala.
3. His subject of assault was slightly stronger than him and was presenting contrasting point of views.
My friend turned out to be a quick learner, as the next day when he greeted us with a sore eye, he did not say, “Happy Holi” or anything related to the festival of colors.
My unresponsive grey matter eventually processed the fact that contest posts get an astounding number of votes and visitors, and being an eternal publicity seeker, I decided to write my maiden contest post. But to my chagrin, the contest did not run for an eternity. This, however, saved me from the guilt of glorifying an otherwise insignificant tale, and therefore, I gleefully omitted the name of the product and the tagline (which would have been a blatant lie.). And now I am going to submit this on indivine as a regular post.
I don’t have to look beyond facts for an inspiration to describe stories that revolved around my hair, as people have always found it more logical to remember me for my hair than my activities which didn’t require any active participation from my hair e.g. academics, sports etc. I was under constant pressure in school as my desire to have long hair conflicted with the guidelines set by the school authorities. No prizes for guessing that, as a student, I didn’t have a pleasant association with my alma mater and my principal never really looked at me as someone who would bring laurels to the school and country one day. However, despite being surrounded by all detractors, I managed to keep my hair reasonably long without getting noticed by anyone … until that fateful day when my luck ran out.
As I was mulling over the options to radically transform my image, I espied my principal scrutinizing a list on the notice board with a wry smile. My joy knew no bounds when I discerned a name on that list. In order to seize the opportunity to score a few brownie points with my principal, I stood next to him and proclaimed with an air of pride, “That’s my friend!” He smiled at me as I fixed my gaze on the notice which read – ‘the following students have been expelled due to shortage of attendance.’ “Just a classmate.” I mumbled and started walking towards the classroom. He continued to smile (which didn’t look that pleasant anymore) as he affirmed, “Either get a haircut tomorrow or don’t come to school again.” The latter sounded like a mouth watering prospect albeit I was not sure if my parents would have endorsed my views.
This mortifying stint of living with short hair lasted for a very brief period as I defied all odds and cleared my final exam just when the chances of me getting thrown out of school was at an all time high. My hair, however, had other issues to deal with.
to be continued…………………………………………….
(That’s all I could write because I was busy doing some CSS editing and somehow managed to delete the entire template, created duplicate title at multiple places and made comment section appear before the post.).
About Debajyoti
Finally, you have fired the first shots towards the hotbed of insurgency! That was a reverberating satire both on contests and hair-care products, complete with potshots at linking. It noted with joy that it is to be continued. That said, I loved the hair-raising tale of your hair. I was briefly influenced by Bruce Lee and tried to imitate him for a brief month or two when my father forced a crew cut on me!
hahaha, even i tried numerous hairstyle. some voluntarily and some forced. i had actually written a long post but the entire thing got messed up. but the good thing is that i can continue with this series for sometime.
thank you so much for the comment and now i am going to proofread this post
. i always force you to comment before proofreading 
haha Good one. The potshots were so true. I took part in the hair contest too. But, I feel a better way of having contests is building posts around an idea instead of blatantly promoting a brand. I know they are getting great backlinks and anchor texts at a piddly cost, and so their motives are served. As bloggers, we being taken for a ride or are we doing what we want to do is the question? Enjoyed your tale about your hair as well!
thank you so much!! there is nothing wrong with taking part in contests as long as the posts are not written keeping in mind the guidelines. having said that it all depends on individuals. blogging is a fun thing and everyone is free to decide how to make the most of it. i enjoy reading contest posts and i loved your contest post as well.
What a hair raising tale!! As usual, adore the cartoon (though I don’t think my adorable hubby would appreciate the humour as much ;p)
hey, thanks a lot Minnie but the cartoon is not mine
. i didn’t have time to do a cartoon so borrowed it from other site. the source is mentioned at the bottom of the image. let me get to the second part, you will understand what my hair had to go through. every single man will be able to empathize with my story 
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What a hair raising tale! What is it about men that they want long hair? Let me tell you it is very hard to keep it in order, not to speak of, washing and drying it too. Waiting for the second part.
Isn’t it great to enter a contest after the last date? No tensions of winning and losing. As far as I remember, the contests don’t ask you to endorse the product, only link back. Have the rules changed?
not all men want long hair but then there are people like me who just love to have long hair no matter what the entire world has to say
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i have nothing against contests. i will write for a contest if i feel my story fits the criteria. i am not aware of the guidelines because as of now i haven’t gone through them.
thanks for reading this post Zephyr. i still have some editing to do (you know how bad i am with that and how many times i asked for your help
) and that’s why i haven’t submitted this on indivine.
no wonder its apparent from yr profile pic its still long
yes it’s still long but it won’t be long for a long time. will talk about that in the next part
. thanks for the comment 
ugh!!! not happy..
for pausing it so abruptly. Want more of it. Deb, I too wanted to write a hair story. I felt, ah!! the contest is over. But then, who cares? I am not going to win anyway. And also it would be a blatant lie to say I use their products..lol…that was a good one..:) No internet for the past one day. Read it on my cell phone, but wanted to read it on the computer…(delay in responding), otherwise you will come after me, why didn’t you comment? 
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then you must have noticed that i changed almost every line including the title of this post. that’s why i didn’t submit this on indivine yesterday because i was not happy with it.
well, i wrote the second part but couldn’t arrange it properly, so, just published half of that
. and i liked that dramatic pause 
thank you so much for the comment. this post badly needed one or two comments
Mmm! Debajyoti at his best as usual! And even a tickle in the tail (so, why is the comments section in a less prominent place now
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Btw, as a consistent contest participant I must confess that the ‘astounding number of votes and visitors’ have consistently eluded me
:) I am the eternal optimist, however 
thanks a lot Suresh. Well, i had to seek professional help when i realized that my blog didn’t exist. you won’t find my recent posts on google and my page rank also dropped because of my technical venture. but thankfully my friend, who handles the technical stuffs for me, fixed everything, and he put an image as well on top as blog title
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i don’t know much about contest posts but i think you guys add your posts under a different tab and not those regular categories on indivine. i have noticed that people read those contest posts more than the regular ones. be an optimist, they will come.
A hairy fairy tale ! The principal was no secret admirer of long hair apparently:)
hahaha, thank you so much for the comment!! have you ever seen a principal of any school who likes long hair?
The much missed sarcasm is back!
the rate at which i was losing visitors because of my stupid cartoons, i thought, i should write a longer post. but i don’t think it’s helping much
Hi Deb
Welcome back to the world of long posts
Well, long hair is something Indian men had for generations rt…Then came the British Raj and imposed new hairstyles….
Say…Why dont we go on a fast that asking men to go for a hair cut is against Indian culture?
Long Live Long Hair!
i love long hair although at times the length of my hair goes beyond the standard limits. i will describe that in details in the next part.
yes, indians always had long hair before those guys came in.
thanks for the comment Jayashree
and listen, i saw your new post but will read it tomorrow. haven’t slept last night, so, i won’t understand anything if i read now.
No worries Deb
thanks a lot Jayashree. you are so nice
With the grace of god, I come in the ‘showoff’ category.
I have this thick blob on my head, have been complimented by barbers and once a she-barber ran her fingers for a long time in my hair. I should write a post about it.
Anyways, I do not understand why guys keep long hair. I hate hair crawling on my neck with every whisk of air.
Waiting for next part.
i will explain everything in the next part
because if i write anything beyond this here then i won’t have anything left for part 2 
thanks a lot for the comment
Haha,really good one !
Even I dont understand why guys keep long hairs. They always look better with short hairs
thank you so much for the comment!
well, may be i don’t want to look good
Or maybe you need an excuse for not looking good
:)
That is my envy talking – after all, you cannot expect me to be happy reading about people blithely talking about long hair when the only way I can sport any hair at all is if I buy a wig
for last two years i haven’t had a haircut and the last time i shaved was in 2011. so, i am not sure if that’s the kind of appearance people are referring to when they are talking about long hair.
and don’t worry, i am going to cover almost everything in next part. it’s going to be a tragic story
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That I will have to see
A tragedy by Debajyothi 
hahaha, you will see tragedy everywhere. i am going to publish that soon. there is no visitor anyway, so no point in waiting for some imaginary traffic
my brother would also get regular warnings to cut his ponytail off, or else
hahaha, many of us have had these experiences but now i am too old to get any warning. many thanks for the comment
I did the best thing to take care of hair , SHAVE my head off he he he .. but you know going on tangent when i had long hair upto my knees , I wanted them cut and now that I have them cut I want to keep long hair ..
I told you I am veyr very weird person
even i shave my head once in a while. cannot write much about my hair now because that’s part of my next post
. thanks a lot for the comment 
eagerly waiting for next…
thank you. yeah, will submit that soon. right now, even i am eagerly waiting for some visitors
yet another blockbuster ! amazing cartoon ! Bro… ur amazing!
I am desperately waiting for the interval to get over and the story of your school days to continue…..
thank you so much but the cartoon is not mine. i have mentioned the source at the bottom of the image.
I couldn’t help laughing at the image of the boy who ran up to the principal and proudly announced ‘That’s my friend’ only to change it to “classmate” on learning that it wasn’t something to be proud of.
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You should have put up one of your cartoons, na!
Managed to get the old template back, I see. That image on top is cool. The blog title is a little difficult to read, tho’
Bring on part II, let’s get to the serious parts of the hair story.
i will use my cartoon in the next part. i quickly wanted to publish this one, and while doing that i completely forgot that there is something called proofreading. i am sure, those who read it on the first day (and the second) have already unsubscribed my blog. it was pathetic.
yeah, got the old template back. i sent 10 mails to my friend saying that i am going to change the template and then sent 20 mails asking him to get the old template back. yeah, even i have noticed that it’s little difficult to read the blog title. i just wanted a weird color. let’s see if i can change it.
yeah, part 2 is ready. will publish that soon.
thanks for the comment Nambiar
But North Eastern guys always look good with long hair..:)..waiting eagerly for the continuation Deb..
North Eastern guys look good with long hair (or short hair). but i am a Bengali, no matter what we do, we don’t look good
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thank you so much for the comment
…I beg to differ dear, but some of the greatest looking men ever are Bengalis like Shri Aurobindo Ghosh and Rabindranth Tagore!
hahaha, i know but i was referring to people like us in general.
But u know a distinct quality of NE region, the Bengali’s of this region differ from the Bengali’s of other regions..Who else can tell it better than me..:P..I do agree with Amitji that the greatest looking men ever are Bengalis..
is it? agree with you then
this was hilarious. i could so identify with the school principal experience, having been sent with the headboy more than once to get my hair cut. great to have you back to what you do so well, write tight – read sidesplitting – posts.
we were more worried about our hair and uniform than homework or anything else. but as i studied in a government bengali medium school (which you must have figured out by now from my poorly written posts) where things were not that stringent, i did enjoy a little bit of freedom.
thanks a lot for the comment
Was the principal suffering from premature baldness? That may explain his attitude. Also you need to do a post on your technical experiments, the 3 lines in the parentheses were hilarious.
Plus the whole vote for contest entries is an urban myth. Had to do a post today begging for votes (the mighty have fallen and it hurts :’()
no principal ever liked long hair. i do have a post on my technical expertise which you have read and commented on.
contest posts do get more votes, you need to promote it properly. will talk about that ‘begging for votes’ only after i read your post.
thanks for the comment
Wow Deb
…after a long time 
Eagerly looking forward to the next one
hahaha, those cartoon posts were not a very good idea. lost all my visitors
thanks a lot for the comment Amit, will post that second part soon
by the way, i loved your last post. couldn’t come up with something which i haven’t already said. you are a rockstar when it comes to those short poems.
Lovely post with a flashback into history. We need to have a closer look at your hair, looking forward to some visual descriptions of your hair in your next post
Probably you could have started off a band with dual lives, National Anthem in the morning assembly whereas Rock music in the night, inviting the principal for special karaoke nights
Holi is deeply ingrained in my memories. While in college, we used to celebrate Holi 2 times a day for one whole week. That also resulted in severe loss in big numbers of student apparels
Looking forward for ‘Hairy post – dwitiya’
hahaha, that must have been fun, playing holi for an entire week.
will post some pictures in the next part which i am going to post soon.
thank you so much for the lovely comment
Hi,
I like your inimitable style of putting humour across. You’ve the gift of a natural flow in the narrative. You’re a master in hitting successive sixers. Good luck!
wow, so much praise!!! that’s more than what my posts deserve. thanks a lot for the comment, you made my day!!
Cool one as usual. The hair topic was made for you. You hair is one of the most noticeable aspects in your profile pics. Anyways you do not need contests – you get so many readers without them. Contest are for people like me who has to piggyback on contests to get readers.
thank you so much. glad you liked it!
I am glad you have reverted to the long post again–your sense of humor rocks.
I don’t read contest posts mostly(if i can tell before hand) because it becomes rather monotonous after a while.I took part in one & it fetched me the highest page-views & comments;but it is not my cup of tea;i can only write about something which touches me significantly.
I hope you follow this series with other long posts,i am waiting!
thanks a lot Indu.
something which is artificial cannot be appreciated. having said that, contest posts can be genuine.
yesterday i was reading a post about crime against women (with reference to that guwahati incident) and i really liked the concern shown by the blogger. but when i reached the last line, i realized it was written for a contest and the blogger asked readers to vote for that post. which was really annoying and i didn’t comment on that post.
Deb, both videographer of the heinous act and blogger you speak of are earning precious points to advance their personal prospects. It is a hallmark of a true Indian.
absolutely and both fall under the same category. unfortunately, all the people who spoke against it, supporting my views, on the comment form of one of my previous posts are now happily voting and commenting on those posts. we can stoop as low as we can for a return visit or pageview. i feel disgusted when i see the kind of people we have around us in this blogworld. and if i write about it now, i am sure, the same people will visit and agree to whatever i write.
hehe..waiting for the next post
thanks a lot Vimla. am writing the next part but it’s not looking good as of now
Oh! guidelines of school can deprive you with most of your wish style. Cartoons are as appealing as your post.:D Waiting for next part of hair story…:D
the only solution for this is – don’t go to school. cartoon is not mine. thanks for the comment. almost done with the next part.
Hahaha!! loved the satire in your post. I have a sarcastic streak down my back, and it is gratifying to see similar lines of thought. “Holi comes on a non negotiable…..” – awesome line!! Await the next part .
thank you so much!! glad you liked it
. will publish the next part today or tomorrow.
I’m not drunk yet I came here. This is absolutely hilarious. The Holi incident… can’t stop laughing at that one and the meeting with the principal… hilarious.
many thanks for reading this post! i am glad you liked it
good one,,, witty and unexpected!!
love the cartoon
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thank you so much! cartoon was borrowed from other site. apologies for the delayed reply, i am not really regular with my blog anymore.
Deb.. you are more than hilarious. Guess I need to find new adjectives for you and alas my English is not that strong. Starting with delicious potshots and contests you transcended with ease towards the delightful endeavors (with repercussions of course) of your friend (may I say under influence). And then the deep dive into your hair put humor at top gear. The way you build up something with a straight face and simple narrative and then come up with the joke suddenly sending the reader into splits is just amazing. And ah.. there is more to come. I am mighty mighty pleased!
thank you so much Raj!! all of us have some hair-related stories, mostly hilarious. thanks again for these kind words
Ha..ha..ha,Very Nice..!
thank you so much!