Cake with Kids, Sept. 19 -- Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami cut a cake with children at the National Institute for Empowerment of Persons with Netra Divyang in Dehradun on his birthday, September 16, marking a celebratory moment amid a demanding governance schedule. When he took the helm of this Himalayan frontier on July 4, 2021, he inherited a profound structural crisis: a post-pandemic economy facing its first-ever contraction, dormant capital investment pipelines since 2018, and a persistent demographic haemorrhage from hill districts to the plains. Five years later, as Uttarakhand's longest-serving Chief Minister, his political longevity is validated by hard economic data. Reviewing his tenure requires looking beyond rhetoric to con...