As a hardcore villager I know many people who fight for drinks(beer , wine, vodka, naatu saarayi, kallu etc....), over drinks and after drinks. In villages, for men drinks are for ecstasy and for women drinks are some thing untouchable, always conflicts between men and women for drinks. Most of the people in my village used to drink cheap liquor which is dangerous for individual health and family relations. Elections are the right time for these drinkers; they get free drinks from politicians over that election period, rest of the time people used to find different ways for drinks. Preparing alcohol according to individual's interest was crime, my village is far away from any of the police station, no police even dare to come to my village bcoz of the worse path ways, my village was safe place for all illegal things like playing cards, alcohol preparation etc....one of my villager started preparing alcohol from natural resources in some deep bushes and he serves alcohol to surrounding village people, it was his passion, one night police came to my village to arrest that person, I was 11 years old that was the first time I saw police , in villages if police comes to anyone house then thats end of their reputation. Police caught him and that person escaped in few minutes, my village is surrounded by full of bushes and only few can go from one place to another in those days. I met him in my recent trip to India, I told him that "if you were born in Australia, you should have become the richest person for your innovative ideas in alcohol preparation"....he just smiled thinking that I was joking....
My villagers drink like anything, loose their senses and speak all nonsense stuff, beat their wives , mothers and kids for no reason. It was big drama, all the people in the village gathers at that quarrel, few who are very close to that drunker try to stop but its very difficult, Next day early morning he behaves as if nothing was happened, he assures that he won't drink again but that never happens. People sell their properties and ornaments of their wives, go to town and drink, comeback and create nonsense. I have seen hundreds of such dramas in my childhood life. I observed so many people closely who lost everything in their life bcoz of drinking.
Who ever drink even a little in my village belongs to worse group and they don't get much respect from rest of the people, they were the bad boys and men of the village. Still my villagers have same opinion.
Now my surroundings changed a lot. I placed myself in a situation where nondrinker is bad boy of the society :-)...You go to drinks party and if you just drink orange juice then you are the odd man out, lots of volunteered speech from rest of the drinkers. After all drink is a drink, how does it matter whether it is a orange juice or vodka or chivas regal. No you have to drink and fall like others then only you are part of the group. Even in this educated surrounding I have seen many individuals who drink beyond their limit and create too much inconvenience for others in many ways. Not much difference to my village days. When I was in Singapore one of my guest house mate Shajesh told that "Anil, I stopped drinking, if I drink and go to home my wife and kids feel lot of insecurity in my presence, thats the worse I can give to them as a responsible husband and father",very very impressive. I doubt any Indian parents or wife likes to see their son or husband to drink even a peg.
Drinkers give very funny reasons, someone say very good for heart, someone say its kind of over joy feeling, someone say drinks brings out the true character of others ……so on..........suppose if you are going on a road and othrs know that you are drunk then people avoid you with fear, parents don't like drinking, your kids won't like, your dependants never like ...even yourself won't like if you know how you are when over drunk.who else likes drinks?????????? how much security we are providing to our surroundings and dependants by over drinking……..
My friends asked me many times reason for my non drinking habit. Here it is...I want every second of my life to be in my consciousness, I don’t want to fall down when I don’t know how to rise, I don't want to talk nonsense unknowingly, I will be happy to face the consequences of any worse decisions that I have taken with my senses, I don't want to create any convenience to others by vomiting even once... I don't want to create any insecurity feeling for others.... I never drink alcohol irrespective of the society I live.
Then and now people behaves in the same way, at that time in my village people lost all their money for drinks, now also people spend lot of money on drinks which otherwise could have helped in this recession time.
DRINKS CAUSED RECESSION :-)
Today I went to office for some pending work , Today temperature in Melbourne is 47 degrees... highest temperature in the last 102 years. Happy to experience something which is very rare. Went out 4 times today and experience 47 degrees....... its really toooooooooo hot............feel like eating only fruits for tonight and tomorrow...bought different varieties of fruits from coles , have to enjoy them for my dinner.
Good night.
Photo was taken at a client party in PARIS.
PS: I LIKE TO SERVE DRINKS TO MY FRIENDS AND I ENJOY DRINKING ENVIRONEMNT A LOT.
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