Looking Backward.

The article discusses the alcohol prohibition in India and its effect on crime rate and legislation. It states that the prohibition has made gang shooting and killing an everyday affair and resulted in an unconventional ways in bootlegging by using women and lepers. It adds that the attitude is traceable to the framing of the constitution and eventually to Mahatma Gandhi. Minister of State Balwant Datar states that any suggestion to loosen the prohibition on alcohol is a counsel of despair.