In my childhood, senior citizens, especially those who didn't work, men who had come home for vacation, would gather at rural tea shops to have a cup of tea, perhaps also some snacks in the morning. Everyone knew each other. One of the notable things was that there would be at least one or two newspapers availed there. Many people would be reading different pages of the same newspaper. Once done, they would exchange the pages. While each person read each news story or told t