Dehradun, Sept. 23 -- We, the Government

One of the nice things of working in our small town is that we get a sense of what citizens at the grassroots feel. They are stalwart, pragmatic, souls. Many of them have lived in the same little society for many generations. They don't view each other through the prism of caste, creed, conventions or community but as people they have grown up with, friends and neighbours with human strengths and weaknesses.

The people of Mussoorie are particularly well-informed, because we are dependent on educational institutions with their access to the latest advances in knowledge, as well as on renewed influxes of tourists who are eager to show that they are at the forefront of the latest fads and fashions f...