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Out of curiosity I ran "Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flesch-Kincaid) test in Microsoft Office on the Tehelka.com article's opening paragragh on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and found the reading ease at a 38%!!!

Is it "Tehelka - The People's Paper" do they think even the well educated Indian let alone the average Indian can understand the words they use. Its not a race where reporters show their hold on language. They are supposed to communicate.. Even Readers Digest and Time Magazine Readabilty score are 200% better than Tehelka..

From wikipedia

"Flesch-Kincaid Reading EaseOne of the tests is known as the "Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease" test. It scores passages on a scale of 0-100. Higher scores indicate material that is easier to read; lower numbers mark harder-to-read passages. As a rule of thumb, scores of 90-100 are considered easily understandable by an average 5th grader. 8th and 9th grade students could easily understand passages with a score of 60-70, and passage with results of 0-30 are best understood by college graduates. Reader's Digest magazine has a readability index of about 65, Time magazine scores about 52, and the Harvard Law Review has a general readability score in the low 30s.This test has become a U.S. governmental standard. Many government agencies require documents or forms to meet specific readability levels. Most states require insurance forms to score 40-50 on the test. The U.S. Department of Defense uses the Reading Ease test as the standard test of readability for its documents and forms. The test is so ubiquitous that it is bundled with the popular word processing programs KWord and Microsoft Word."

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