📰 Articles — User Guide

1. What an article page gives you

An article page is the story itself — headline, dek (summary under the headline), body, author, related stories and the controls that make reading and sharing easy. Every article is linked from the homepage, category feeds, search and the AI assistant's citations.

2. The reading experience

headline and summary

• The headline is the title; the summary is the dek under it — one or two lines that tell you what the story is before you commit to reading.
• If the article has an AI summary (the short paragraph automatically written by the assistant), it appears beneath the dek so you can scan the point of the story in seconds. It is generated automatically when the article is saved, in the site's language, and regenerated when the story changes.
• The reading time is shown so you know whether it is a quick scan or a long read before you start.

Body

• The body is the article content — clean rich text, images, links and the structured blocks the newsroom chooses.
• Related stories appear near the end so you can keep going without going back to a feed.

Structured blocks in the body

An article is not only paragraphs. Depending on how the story was put together you may also see:

• Picture with text — a photo and its text laid out together: side by side, or one above the other, whichever the story was built for. On a narrow screen the pair always stacks rather than squeezing a half-width photo next to half-width text. Many of these blocks also carry a short heading in bold directly above the write-up — it is the block's own title, and a block without one simply shows its picture and text.
• Web story slides — a short sequence of picture-and-text slides, numbered in order and shown in the page so nothing is hidden behind a button. Press Watch Web Story and the same slides play full screen with the picture as the background and the words laid over it.
• Embedded content — a map, a post or another page shown inside the article as a live frame, so what you see is the original, not a copy of it.

💡 If a photo in one of these blocks is unavailable, the story still reads normally — the words stay, and a block with neither a photo nor words is simply left out rather than leaving an empty space.

Video stories

• Some stories have a video as their cover. In listings you see a still frame taken from that video with a ▶ play badge on top of it, so you can tell at a glance that the story plays — the picture is just the poster, not a screenshot with a marker drawn on it.
• Open such a story and the video plays at the top of the page; the same still frame is used as its poster until you press play.
• If a video story shows a plain grey placeholder instead of a picture, the poster frame has not been generated yet — it is created automatically a moment after the video is uploaded, so reload the page.

💡 The AI summary is there to help you scan and decide — it does not replace the article. Read the full story when it matters; use the summary when you are skimming many stories.

3. Who wrote this — the author card

Every article carries its author — name and photo. You can see the author at two points:

• In the byline near the top of the article — the writer's photo and name are shown inline so the story has a real person behind it.
• In a tap-open author card — tap the author's name/photo to open a small card with their photo, name and a short bio, plus the number of articles they have written.

This is the same author representation used on the homepage cards and in the shared action panel, so a writer's face and name stay consistent across the site. If an article has no author attached, the byline is blank — for lead stories, always make sure an author is attached.

💡 Trust travels with people, not logos. A story with a named, pictured author is more likely to be read, trusted and shared.

4. Listen and Watch Web Story — controls that stay with you

Two controls let you experience the same story in other ways:

• Listen — reads the article aloud to you in the site's language, using your browser's built-in speech voice. No subscription, no extra app.
• Watch Web Story — turns the story into a full-screen, tappable, swipeable story view you can read like a short visual story.

Both controls stay pinned near the top of the reading column while you scroll a long article, so you can start listening or switch to the story view from anywhere in the article — you never have to scroll back to the top to find them.

What Listen reads

Listen reads the whole story in the order you see it on the page: the headline, the summary, then the body — including the text inside picture-with-text blocks, the bold heading above each of them, and every slide of a web story (heading first, then its words), in the order they appear. It stays quiet where there is nothing to say out loud: an embedded map or post has no words of its own, so it is passed over rather than described.

What the story view plays

Watch Web Story plays the story as a sequence — the cover, then the summary, then the story's own blocks:

• A slide built from a picture and text shows the picture as the background with the words laid over it, so the two are read together. If the slide has a heading it is shown in bold above those words, in the same place it sits in the article.
• Slides that belong to a longer sequence show how far through you are (for example 2/5) in the corner.
• An embedded map or post gets a slide of its own and is held longer than a text slide so you have time to look at it.

When a story has been written as a dedicated web story, its slideshow opens by itself as soon as the page loads — you do not need to press anything. Close it with the ✕ in the top corner whenever you would rather read the article; it stays closed for that visit.

When to use each

• Use Listen when your eyes are busy — on a commute, while cooking, or when you prefer audio.
• Use Watch Web Story when you want the story as a quick visual read on a phone.
• Use the normal article view when you want the full text and images and don't mind scrolling.

ℹ️ The Listen control uses the browser's speech voice and follows the site language you have chosen, so the same story can be heard in Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi or English depending on your setting.

5. Saving, sharing and reacting

Saving

• Tap the save / bookmark control to keep the article for later. Saved articles appear in your saved list so you can come back to them from one place.
• Saved items keep their cover thumbnail in the saved list, so you can recognise them at a glance.
• Open your saved list with the Saved Articles control next to the bookmark. When you are signed in and have set a profile photo, that control shows your own avatar instead of the bookmark-check icon, so you can tell at a glance whose list it opens.
• Saving is personal to you when you are signed in; a signed-out reader gets a browser-local saved list.

Sharing

• Tap the share control to open the one-tap share panel and send the article to WhatsApp or another app, or copy the link.
• Share works from the article page and from the card where the story appears.

Reacting

• Use like / dislike to react to a story. The counts on the card are maintained automatically — you do not manage them by hand.
• Your reactions are tied to your account where you are signed in.

💡 Saved and liked stories are the strongest signal that a reader is engaged. They are also the simplest way for a reader to build a personal reading list without leaving the site.

6. Commenting and charchapatra

Where the article allows it, you can join the discussion:

• Open the article's discussion to read or add comments.
• The discussion is the site's charchapatra — the reader-to-paper conversation space.
• If the article has allow charchapatra turned on, the discussion thread is available under it.

Commenting may require a sign-in depending on the site's settings; if you are not signed in, the share/save/like controls guide you to sign in without leaving the page.

7. Finding an article again

• From search — type the headline words or a keyword; search is typo-tolerant, so you do not need the exact spelling.
• From the homepage or category feed — scroll back to the feed where you saw it, or use search.
• From the author card — open the author card and follow their articles to see more from the same writer.
• From your saved list — if you saved it, it is one tap away.

Article links are stable: each article lives at its own URL and a renamed article keeps a redirect from its old address, so a link you saved or shared keeps working.

8. Layouts and dark mode

• The article page adapts to your screen size — desktop gives a wider reading column, mobile gives a focused single-column read.
• Dark mode is available; the article page respects the theme you have chosen on the site.
• Covers and in-body images are shown at readable sizes and, where relevant, with zoom so you can see detail on small screens.

9. Tips for readers

• Read the summary first if you are skimming several stories.
• Use Listen when your eyes are busy — it is the fastest way to consume a long story hands-free.
• Save stories you want to finish later; the saved list beats bookmarks scattered across apps.
• Follow a writer via their author card when you like their coverage.
• If a story feels incomplete, open it from search or the homepage — the article page is the full story.

10. Troubleshooting