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Things are so dire that one state has produced a rational alcohol policy
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Civilisation was built on alcohol. Technology may sober us up

Distillers of mahua, an Indian tipple made from dried blossoms, have big ambitions

Because the state makes it impossible not to be

The overbearing role of the state has never been challenged

It’s too soon to declare the death of drinking

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist