Mayank Shekhar: Why do we drink in the first place?
(WorldNews India)

As a substance that relaxes the mind, drinking does help you connect with people. Pic for Representation/Gettyimages Khushwant Singh, I`m told, once famously went up to LK Advani and said, `You don`t smoke. You don`t drink. You don`t womanise. You`re a dangerous man!` Now one can endlessly debate the dangers (or not) of being Advani, but clearly a man who gains no highs from anything external, ever, must be perennially inebriated on a reserve derived from within-perhaps unbridled ambition, or power, in Advani`s case. For years I`ve sort of agreed with the late Khushwant. Having made hardly any teetotaler friends for all my adult life, I get perhaps unduly suspicious sometimes of people who...