Deepak uses a magnifying lens to enlarge newspaper print

Why

Deepak's surprise makes sense — we even call the thing a magnifying glass, so shrinking feels like a fault. But the name describes one way of using it, not a promise the lens makes. A convex lens simply bends light inward to a meeting point, and what you see depends entirely on whether the object sits closer than that meeting point or beyond it. Hold it close to newsprint and you get a large upright image; move well past that distance and the rays cross before reaching you, so the image arrives small and inverted. Test: keep the lens still and walk it slowly away from a letter on the page — you can watch the letter swell, blur at the changeover, then flip. Farah is right: the lens never changed, only where the object stood.