Alcohol sales increasing in Delhi, India
"But drinking is not new in India. The people of the Indus Valley were fermenting alcohol in 2000BC, and the British brought regulation and commercial stills. It was the father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi, who railed successfully against the ''evil'' of alcohol, saying it ruined health and destroyed families.
Such was his influence, that part of the directive principles of the constitution reads: ''the state shall endeavour to bring about prohibition of the consumption, except for medicinal purposes, of intoxicating drinks … which are injurious to health''.
But more than 60 years later prohibition is on nobody's agenda, and the country is struggling to deal with its emerging drinking culture, the Indian Alcohol Policy Alliance says..."
"But drinking is not new in India. The people of the Indus Valley were fermenting alcohol in 2000BC, and the British brought regulation and commercial stills. It was the father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi, who railed successfully against the ''evil'' of alcohol, saying it ruined health and destroyed families.
Such was his influence, that part of the directive principles of the constitution reads: ''the state shall endeavour to bring about prohibition of the consumption, except for medicinal purposes, of intoxicating drinks … which are injurious to health''.
But more than 60 years later prohibition is on nobody's agenda, and the country is struggling to deal with its emerging drinking culture, the Indian Alcohol Policy Alliance says..."
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