How to Browse the Blog and Past Posts on sethnas.org

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The sethnas.org blog is a straightforward reverse-chronological archive: the landing page lists posts newest first, each title links to the full article, and a pagination strip at the bottom moves you through five pages of older entries. That structure is enough to reach everything published, but it helps to know what you are looking at before you start clicking.

What the blog covers

The site belongs to Sethna's 18th West Bombay Scout Group, run by Sethna's Scouting Society and described as India's oldest scout group. The blog is where the group's institutional memory lives — centenary and jubilee notices, service reports, and photographs.

From the visible entries, the archive spans at least 2012 to 2014:

Post Date shown What it contains
A 100 Years Ago Today August 14, 2014 A look back at the troop's founding period
The Sea Scout Troop Golden Jubilee Celebrations October 24, 2012 Photos by Homz Prints of the October 21, 2012 function at Albless Baug, Mumbai
Golden Jubilee of Sea Scout Troop October 18, 2012 Official press release on the Sea Scout Troop (est. 1962) and the group's centenary (est. 1914)
Rovers Offer Service At Kappawala Agiary April 9, 2012 A first-person account by Homiar Hathiram of a rover service activity

Step-by-step: reading a post and moving through the archive

  1. Open the blog landing page. You get a list of post titles in reverse-chronological order, each with a date and a short excerpt.
  2. Click a post title to load the full article. Longer entries are truncated on the listing page — the Golden Jubilee press release, for example, shows "(more...)" where the full text continues.
  3. Scroll to the bottom of the listing to find the pagination strip: 1 2 3 ... 5 Next Page →.
  4. Click a page number or "Next Page" to load older posts. Page 1 holds the most recent entries; page 5 holds the oldest.
  5. Use the browser back button to return to the listing — the pagination state is part of the URL, so returning to a specific page works normally.

Expected result: you can reach any post in the archive in at most a few clicks, and you always know where you are in the timeline from the dates on each entry.

Practical notes and common snags

  • Dates are the fastest filter. Because posts are ordered by date, not by topic, the quickest way to find something specific — a jubilee, a service activity, a founding anniversary — is to scan the dates down the page rather than read every excerpt.
  • Excerpts are not summaries. The listing text is the opening of the post, so a title like "Rovers Offer Service At Kappawala Agiary" tells you the subject but not the outcome. Open the post for the actual account.
  • Attribution matters in the photo and report posts. The Golden Jubilee celebration photos are credited to Homz Prints, a rover of the troop, and the Kappawala Agiary account is written by Homiar Hathiram. If you plan to reuse anything, that is where the credit belongs.
  • The archive is finite. With five pages ending in 2014-era material, this is a historical record rather than a frequently updated news feed. If you are looking for current activity, the blog alone will not show it.

If you are looking for something specific

  • Group history and founding: start with "A 100 Years Ago Today" and the Golden Jubilee press release, which together cover the 1914 founding and the 1962 launch of the Sea Scout Troop.
  • Community service by the Rovers: the Kappawala Agiary post is the detailed example on the visible pages — a six-member rover team moved a 50-foot, four-storey scaffolding across the agiary entrance so the western facade could be cleaned, after being called in the night before. Older service reports are likely on later pages.
  • Photographs: the jubilee posts are the image-heavy entries; the listing page itself does not preview them, so open the post.