Dehradun, Aug. 31 -- Author's collection.

By: Ganesh Saili

'Good news is rare. No news is good news. Good news is excellent news,' writes a friend on hearing that his children were heading home for a week. 'If you don't hear from them, it is good news,' he says, adding: 'They rarely come home, but when they do, that's excellent news!'

Up here, if you walk from Picture Palace to Library, chances are that one of two things is going to happen: you'll either get hit by a two-wheeler or bump into one of the forty-eight journalists peopling this station. They represent our local, regional and national print media.

Mussoorie was the first of our hill stations to have its own newspaper, of which no copies are known to survive. One happy day, ...