There would always be some connoisseur of relaxed living, who can understand the guillotining of slow leisurely life and the drive, best. To reach Dehradun, there are two expressways build in past few years and two more under construction from Delhi and Yamunanagar. What for? Is it some heavy trading port city? Why people need to speed up to Dehradun from Delhi in two hours as being proudly claimed, when they are already just good four and half hours drive away only now. Have we completed all rural infrastructure? Dehradun once used to be holiday or retirees' retreat with lots of lichee and chakotra gardens and several streams or rivulets. In name of offices it had few cool elitist ones like Survey of India, Indian Military Acedamy, Headquarters of ONGC or its institutes, Geological survey offices or iconic Forest Research Institute. The authentic doon bakeries used to flavour the streets. Now it is turning into noisy and ugly road side highway town.
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