Dehradun, Sept. 15 -- We, the Government

Fast-foods are meant for fast lifestyles. But for all the creative

variations of the Big M, the southern charm of the Chicken Colonel, and the blandishments of the chaat-wallahs and pan-clanking pao-bhaji street-food cooks of Mumbai, we still enjoy a quiet, slow dinner in an elegant restaurant where the waiters are soft-spoken and attentive and the food is of our choice, ordered from an elegant menu.

That's a long and complex sentence, for a long and sustaining ritual. Sadly, that is one of the fortifying pleasures that the pandemic has snatched from us.

That is, until we saw the flyer in one of newspapers we get every day. (We prefer the feel of crisp newsprint to tap-tap tapping on our smart-...