Today, India celebrates its Independence Day. We do not, however, have the liberty to celebrate with a cold lager. Independence Day, like Republic Day and Gandhi's birth anniversary, is a "dry day": bars and off-licences are shut and there is no way to procure alcohol legally.
It doesn't end there. Each state has its own laundry list of days when the sale of alcohol is banned. And in every constituency in India, the 48 hours before any election are alcohol-free. So is the day that votes are counted. When my MP died a few years ago, a byelection meant that bars in my neighbourhood were shut but the drink flowed freely one mile south. More...
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