It's ok to have a dozen liquor shops in residential areas, and residents treated to various states of inebriated and foul behavior. It's ok for drunks to lie down on public streets and gutters without the police bothering them whatsoever. But God forbid if Kingfisher airlines provides a glass of beer on its flight. Ooh, it's against our culture. What culture? My uncle died of alcoholism, and I have seen middle class families (let alone the working poor, with their toddy addiction) ruined because of liquor. Yet we have these charades of character, culture and what not for display in public. You see, the moment that blue collard labourer boards a flight to Singapore, he will ask for "Shivaji Regal". He will make sure he gets drunk enough to vomit on his neighbour and/or harass the pretty Singapore Airline air hostess. That, we don't mind, it's all in our culture.
