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In most Indian homes there used to be one person who read the newspaper properly, front to back, in order, and woe betide anyone who pulled out the sports page before he was done. The front page came first, with its riots and rail accidents and ministers saying things they would deny in the evening.Then came the edit page, where someone calmer explained what all that noise actually meant. Then the letters section, where a retired schoolteacher from Medinipur would disagree, very politely, with a retired bank manager from Pune.At the very end there was the crossword, filled in slowly with a blunt pencil while the tea went cold. When the last clue was cracked, the paper was folded, tucked under a cushion, and the reader got up to shave.