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Bring on the summer wine

My local liquor stores, which for years bore the stamp of illicit seediness, are so transformed in size and large displays of foreign and Indian wines that some look like art galleries, Sethi writes

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Sunil Sethi
Taken by a sense of contrariness, and overwhelmed by the heaving bar, I asked an old familiar waiter at the Delhi Gymkhana Club for a Pink Gin the other evening. “Kya kaha aapne?” he said, looking baffled. It was an odd choice, even for me. I dislike gin; no longer know the hip new crowd (all posh frocks, little black dresses and gym-toned bodies); and am irritated that few stock a concoction called Angostura Bitters, essential to Pink Gins, once a popular tipple when I became a member years ago. This curious product from Trinidad & Tobago in little black
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