Dehradun, Jan. 8 -- We, the Government

We have stepped into a new decade. It's time to pause, take a deep breath, and consider where we've been, where we are, and where we're heading. Our focus is on our little town, district and peaceful state. We're concerned about the barber whose grandfather gave our son his first haircut: a great, heartless, civic organisation is threatening to evict him from his tiny saloon. We're worried about our friendly bookstore owner who fractured his leg and is recovering but cannot go home because a civic organisation has dug up the road and he can't risk falling again. We're appreciative of a powerful neta who gave a wheel-chair to a crippled man whose wife was a domestic help. We salute a very senior politi...