Dehradun, Jan. 12 -- We, the Citizens

We have been writing opinion pieces for almost five decades.

We started writing our weekly piece for the Garhwal Post to keep our fellow citizens informed. We reasoned that if they knew what was happening around them, they would be empowered to change the course of local events, to expose the self-enriching puffery of wily netas. So we confined ourselves to matters directly impacting on the citizens of our state, district and town. This was our way of paying our social debt to Uttarakhand, Dehradun district, and Mussoorie.

Today, however, we face an existential dilemma.

So much has happened recently that we can no longer distinguish between global events and local ones. The virus has hit us all an...