Dedications

First it was raising the age bar, for drinking from 18 to 25 in Maharashtra. No logical conclusions and explanations, and is made a rule as some idiots of moral brigadiers in the government feels so. It can’t be moral because no one in the government has any moral values. It is just opening more avenues for corruption. To make it even easier for more corruption now even if you are above 25 you still need a license to drink. How would a license help you to drink responsibly?

A license to drive is required, as it needs specific skills. What skills do a license to drink offer? If it is to earn revenue then tax alcohol even more higher, which is anyways taxed beyond a common man’s reach, or make it like Gujarat a ‘dry state’. If morality is the concern then why only Gujarat; every Indian should be made morally a better citizen. Then are the alleged evils of drinking and driving, or crime associated with drinking. Godhra carnage in Gujarat had nothing to do with drinking, but one Narendra Modi who was drunk and intoxicated in power had thousands killed in the riots. Maybe he had a license to kill.

The weirdest is issuing ‘one day drinking permits’. So how does one day qualify a person to drink on ‘one day’ and other days he cannot. Why create a maze for breeding corruption. If 25 years of age is decided as an eligible age to drink, why add a license over it. Maximum should be proof of age which can be asked for. Then if responsibility to drink can be achieved only at the age of 25, then so should be age for marriage and voting. If a person can vote at the age of 18 and can decide responsibly on who should run the country, then the person is more than capable to know how to drink responsibility.

If morality is again an issue, then contraceptives should be dispensed to only people who have a license or who are married, and should be aged 25 and above. So Chemist shops should be told to issue ‘one day license’. So this could be additional revenue issuing a license to have sex. Then the same should apply for smoking, dancing, singing, seeing movies, etc. If a movie is rated A, then adults who go to watch should have a license.

The craziest and most draconian of the law is the bar premises you're drinking must have all its licenses in place, for you could be jailed even if the bar has lapsed in the observance of rules. How much more weird could it get? For transporting alcohol you should have a license. Then make it mandatory for all the commuters in any form of transport including public transport to have a license, as if a bar runs illegally the people patronizing it are held it guilty. So if a person is transporting alcohol does not have a license then all who are travelling with the person are also guilty. Then it should be mandatory when you get a license to drive, you should also get a license to drink, so if a commuter is transporting alcohol the driver is also licensed to transport the commuter………or better still license to drink and drive.

Maharashtra is the only state where a person can buy only two bottles of 750 ml liquor every week. What is the logic? If you want to make revenue then let a person buy any amount they want. Maybe the aim of the government could be to save on water resources which is a scarcity, then the rule should apply for soft drinks, and that too should be licensed. Make the age limit to drink soft drinks, also 25 years. Since aerated drinks contain harmful chemicals the person should reach a mature age to know about it, and the government feels a person is mature at the age of 25.

Bar dancers are resorting to prostitution as ‘dance bars’ have been made illegal. So if dancing to entertain is illegal, then any form of entertainment should be illegal. The government instead of killing gangsters, and terrorism, is killing the right of a citizen to be happy with a license to chill.