Then MNS tried to evict ‘north Indians’ from ‘their land’ and now they must decide whether we can visit the local pub!.
So Pub culture should be checked or eliminated in a country full of people who are familiar with only one aspect of their politicians, viz, corruption. Corruption and alcohol go hand in hand I presume?
Going back to the basics or the barbarian times, correct me if courtesans were not a part of our culture; so was sati or child marriage or mistress. Surprising, we aren’t reviving our culture fully; otherwise our politicians would have bigger issues to worry about. Moments like these always silence the pen or the keyboard (just in case).
Mumbai’s timings changed and new deadlines brought all activity to a halt at 1.30 am. This changed a lot; it did indeed; but useful things that can be done by taking advantage of the said deadlines don’t strike our politicians. Environmental cleansing can never be implemented with as much vigour as a ban on alcohol.
Hammered by the ethics that rattle those empty heads, soon masses will believe that alcohol is bad; select communities already say so anyway; all we need now is for the government to follow suit.
Now, how exactly is it bad is not something that can be left to the people to decide because they far too naïve but never too naïve to elect their own government and the last time I checked, our country was still a democracy.
The answer to why and what it must achieve is yet to come about. If only for once the government did not take decisions based on our culture, which unanimously has come to mean something subjective, we might be able to see logic and ensure people’s well-being.
How banning pubs and not leaving the youth to do anything on a weekend, will bring peace to our government that is generally least concerned with the micro picture is something I fail to fathom.
The banning of anything that has a great demand will only engender a third route to acquire what is needed, through illegal means and create more trouble instead of providing relief.
Politicians will still get what they want, as they generally do but for the common man, his decisions are no longer his own, whether it is of how he should drink, how he should behave while drinking and where he should.
Most of the youth still find the concept of a dry day rather odd and taking away something that does not intrude into the daily affairs and functioning of a state or a country only seems like an empty measure.
So now we wait patiently for any opportunity leading to further waste of time, until the next great idea of going back to wearing only dhotis and kurtas pops up.
After all, clothing too represents the face of what our politicians believe to be Indian culture.
