In 1946, George Orwell wrote an article describing his favourite pub, the Moon Under Water, a small bar with no music, a welcoming atmosphere and creamy stout. The only catch was that the bar was fictional, and Orwell was describing an idealised pub.
Whether it be Kolkata’s Someplace Else or Bengaluru’s Pecos, bars have a way of living on in memories. Some of them remain true, and some change, not always for the better. But when you walk back through those doors, you remember it as you did when you were a grotty teenager, gorging on free popcorn and cheap beer.
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