Adulterated alcohol kills hundreds in India every year. This video highlights one of the reasons why it happens: Shops sell alcohol without a bill. ...
Adulterated alcohol kills hundreds in India every year. This video highlights one of the reasons why it happens: Shops sell alcohol without a bill. Mani Macnickem, the correspondent of this video lives in a slum of Chennai’s Ashok Nagar, captures in this video a government-owned liquord shop in his area whic sells alcohol without issuing a bill. The consumers are like Mani – Dalit and poor. To watch Mani’s personal profile video, and other videos produced by him, click here In Channai and elsewhere in the state of Tamil Nadu, all government owned alcohol shops are supervised and run by a single corporation — Tamil Nadu Sales and Marketing Corporation (TASMAC). The shop in Mani’s slum is also supervised by TASMAC. Despite being a government outlet, the shop doesn’t issue a bill, in clear violation of excise rules. This means, people are buying bottles which they believe are of good quality, but if it turns out to be adulterated and poisonous, there is no way they can hold the alcohol seller guilty of that. This also means, the shop isn’t paying any taxes to the government as no bills mean zero sales! Deaths from adulterated alcohol are frequent and rising in numbers across Indian villages and towns. The brew is often spiked with pesticides or chemicals like methyl alcohol and even battery acid to increase the kick. The spiking makes the drink a lethal cocktail that causes blindness and damages vital organs resulting in death. Ironically when Mani was shooting this video …
I have never drank alcohol in my life. I’m interested in trying out red wine; heard so many good things about it. But I’m so confused! How do I know what to pick? I don’t mind paying $ for it, as long as it tastes good. Can anybody help me out, please? Thanks so much!
alright, so I know not to buy cooking wine, only wine I’d drink…
BUT… I don’t drink. Ha. I just bought some Yellow Tail Merlot. I am roasting a whole chicken over veggies… the wine is to deglaze the roasting pan along with adding stock to make jus.
I just tasted the Merlot… oh my god… ewww.
Then again, I don’t drink. And perhaps I have to give the wine a chance as I’ll have the alcohol go out as it cooks anyway, right?
What other "red wine" would you recommend? I don’t even know what merlot is. Any brands come to mind as well? I’m talking grocery store.
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I sit alone in my bedroom, hiding under my duvet covers, to avoid the hate-filled world which surrounds me. I lie crying, with the tears streaming down my face like a furious waterfall and I am asking myself what I have done to deserve this. My body is screaming at me and I know I am not in control. I can feel myself slipping away as my anger and confusion overwhelm me.
“Astraea!” My mum calls me. My emotions are hastily hidden as if a blanket is pulled over my heart, in an attempt to veil my grief. “What?” I respond, trying to keep my voice as still as possible.
“Get down here and clean this up! Or… Or I’ll… ” She trails off. I can tell she’s drunk; otherwise she wouldn’t be stuck for a punishment. I can hear her heavy footsteps on the stairs, in response I jump up, rub my eyes, open a book and pretend to read it. She stumbles through my door. She looks terrible; her lipstick is bright red and makes her lips look uneven because she’s wearing too much. She’s got on my eye shadow, the set that I bought with my birthday money. Suddenly the smell hits me, a disgusting cocktail of cheap perfume, alcohol and smoke. “Clean it, right now.” Her voice scares me, the woman standing in my bedroom is no longer my mum, she’s just the woman whose maid happens to be her daughter. She glares at me with her resentful eyes as I slink past her. I turn around and see her walking into her bedroom. I skulk downstairs and through to the lounge, where I see the mess she makes every night. There are empty bottles of wine everywhere and the usual stains that come with them. Her make-up is all over the sofa and used tissues are strewn across the room, as if somebody purposefully placed them so far away from each other.
I cannot put up with this injustice any longer. I feel my emotions taking over my soul and compressing it, the mental pain is unbearable, how did this situation ever come to be. I feel something in my hands, my nails are digging into my palms and making them bleed, but it’s good, it distracts me from the real pain. I’m looking at the mess, but I’m not seeing it, I can notice the draft from the door mum didn’t close, but I cannot feel it, I smell the clubs and the bars, but I don’t acknowledge it. I need to leave, get away from all these people who are crushing my dreams and labelling them as impossible and a joke. But where can I go? I have no-one who can help me, I’m all alone and no-one understands… apart from Jay!
‘How could I forget about Jay?’ I run back through the lounge and back upstairs, being careful to avoid the 2 creaky steps. I hurry to my desk and take out my writing paper. I grab a pen and start to write:
Jay,
Life here has become unbearable without you. I need you; you’re all I have left. My life has shattered into pieces. Those I thought were my friends betrayed me, my boyfriend abused me, my mum gets drunk every night and I need to talk to somebody.
Now i’m stuck…. My teacher says we have to follow the unity of time, which means she cannot go to sleep, she cannot get knocked out, I personally cannot just put in something like, ‘a few minutes later’.
I know they all have different tastes, so just pick one at random and describe the taste to me. It’s for a book I’m working on. I’d rather not do it myself because A) I’m a minor and B) I cannot stand alcohol.
My friends and I are going on vacation in a few weeks and I have a few bottles of alcohol that I will never drink on my own. I would love some suggestions and which types of mixed drinks I can prepare with the following ingredients.
Canadian Club Blended Canadian Whisky
Dewar’s Blended Scotch Whisky. "White Label"
Irish Mist Liquer
Gordon’s Vodka
Luna Di Luna Merlot and Cabernet Italian Red Wine.
Any and all suggestions would be great. Thanks a bunch!
*Also, I would be willing to buy extra ingredients to add to these if need be to complete a good drink.
The red wine alternative that has no alcohol. I have it and it is good. I asked a question earlier whether or not it was safe to drink more then one ounce or two ounces because it might hurt you if you do. I contacted the company who made it and they said that you can drink more then two ounces if you wanted to. It’s just that it is really expensive and that they said drinking more wouldn’t hurt you, but it probably wouldn’t help you beyond a certain point. All it mainly has in it is a whole bunch of antioxidants, so I am going to go ahead and drink more then I am suppose to because I was told from the company who made it that I don’t need more then two ounces, but she told me to go ahead. So I am going to do it. My question is, If the company says it is okay, then I can really go ahead and drink a lot. I probably won’t drink the whole bottle at once because it costs 20 dollars at the sam’s club where I bought it. What do you people think about all of this? Is the company correct in what they said or is there something that I am not being told or am I just worrying for nothing?
