Ranjona Banerji | Concrete threat, but there's bignonia, and birdsong Published Feb 21, 2021, 4:35 am IST Updated Feb 21, 2021, 4:35 am IST Dehradun has no buzz. It has higgledy-piggledy growth. Almost none of it is organic It’s not all sapsuckers and sappy stories. There are those harsh realities of the countryside. Of the lack of basic amenities. Health, education, migration for work. Of environmental destruction and the resultant devastation. (Photo: PTI) You are so lucky that you moved to Dehradun from a city, I get told all the time. As cliches go, it’s a great line. I see the foothills of the Himalayas every time I look out of the window. I am surrounded by countryside. I have a garden full of flowers.