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Feeling Old

Sometimes certain habits become pleasurable activities because of certain happy interludes. Like for example, brushing ones teeth is a routine activity that has taken the status of a habit now. But on days when the toothpaste is changed one automatically charged up (atleast for the first few days). I don’t know when this came about but the newspaper which I have been reading all my life purely out of habit has suddenly taken a preference above other papers. Dad had subscribed to this paper, The New Indian Express, from when I could read a newspaper (even if it were habitually). I had felt then that the paper presented the news in a crisp form and helped easy reading…as against its popular counterpart – The Hindu, which almost three fourth of the population reads in Tamil Nadu. But increasingly I feel like the newspaper is growing younger or perhaps I am catching up with it. It’s a pleasure to take the paper and read reviews and columns written by like minded individuals. I pick up the