Dehradun, Jan. 1 -- We, the Government
The Mussoorie Winter Festival, aka The Carnival, 2019 is over. We, in this little hill-station, are settling back to our quiet lives, welcoming the street-lights which brighten our forested roads in the 5 o'clock gloaming when the winter-line flares over the twinkling constellations of the Doon. We live in a really magical place and, for a few days, we tried to package and market it to our visitors from the restless, choking, disgruntled plains. Did the Festival enhance our tourism image? We asked that question to a large number of our fellow citizens. All of them gave clear answers. A few were happy to be quoted. Two hoteliers, at the opposite ends of Mussoorie, said that the occupancies of their hot...