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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