Dehradun used to be a sleepy town of boarding schools and retired folk. It had one respectable watering hole – the Polo Bar, in the basement of Hotel President, and a ragtag bunch of dim-lit dives.

By that logic, kanwariyas should stop playing bass-heavy techno beats and stick to bhajans. We have a situation where you cannot use colloquial Hindi gaalis in a song (as Seedhe Maut discovered), nor ...