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Pause. A polite word for burial.

Every morning at 5:47 AM, old Mani Iyer would open his tablet. Not with the trembling impatience of a man chasing time, but with the reverence of a priest lifting a bronze uthsava vigraham . the hindu tamil epaper

Not his column. Not the editor’s note. the hindu tamil epaper

But Mani Iyer missed the ink. He missed the way the Madras edition smelled of gum and newsprint, the way the crossword puzzle demanded a sharpened 2B pencil. The ePaper, though—he had learned to love it differently. On its crisp, backlit screen, the headlines glowed like little lanterns in his dark Mylapore living room. the hindu tamil epaper