New Delhi, March 17 -- From a very early age, I formed an image of Dehradun through the writings of Ruskin Bond, be it The Room on the Roof, Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra or Adventures of Rusty. Later, the writings of other prolific authors such as Stephen Alter created a vivid imagery of the valley and the surrounding mountains of Uttarakhand. During many visits to the city in the ensuing years, I would hungrily scout for landmarks that the writers had mentioned in their books. To me, literature and Dehradun have always been intertwined. It's no wonder then that in recent years, annual literary gatherings have come up to celebrate this connection-take for instance, the Dehradun Literature Festival, which started in 2017 or the Crime Lite...