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The Daily Eye-test

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  Image by upklyak on Freepik I am sure many of us are shortsighted enough to remember the good old eye-testing charts beginning with a large E and ending with an indecipherable string of letters which apparently no one but Superman can read. Well, that happens to me every morning but with a few bells and whistles thrown in. Let me explain. The Eyetest Equipment: The daily newspaper. In my case, The Telegraph. The Day: Everyday except when the powers-that-be declare a string of holidays as in the recently concluded Pujas. The Place: My favourite place is the "Library" which some people call the Necessarium or the plebs call the Bogs. For one thing, there's no fan and pages don't fly. For another, some of the news is so frightening is scares the crap out of you. The Story So, just like the eye-test, they soften you up by giving you a few large advertisements in the first four or four and a half pages.  Easy on the eye - some of the pin-up girls in jewellery are even ea