This time last year, BlogAdda was running the game of blogs competition. I was fortunate enough to be part of team Potliwale Baba, an amazing bunch of people. Our team was amongst the chosen three stories which were incorporated to the book Six Degrees and its out now. Our story Entangled Lives is the second one in the book. The other two stories are by Team By Lines and Team Tete - a - Ten. I received the book recently, and need I say our story is the best? Of course the other two teams have done an excellent job. Our competition was tough for the writers so brilliant and creative. That's why its a privilege to be part of this book. The book, published by Leadstart is expected to hit the stores soon.
What if the history of India could be read through a glass? In Toddy to Tequila , Sandhya Mulchandani turns alcohol into an unexpected historical guide, moving from Vedic rituals and indigenous brews to Mughal courts, colonial trade and modern distilleries. Her subject is never simply drinking. It is faith, pleasure, prohibition, commerce, class, power and the people caught between them. Have you ever wondered what your drink says about the country you live in? Perhaps you are sitting somewhere with a drink in front of you. Nothing dramatic. No Mughal durbar. No colonial club with men in linen suits pretending the weather is not trying to kill them. You might be holding whisky. Or feni. Or beer. Perhaps a cocktail with a name that requires three attempts before you can pronounce it without embarrassing yourself. Perhaps it is toddy, poured from a humble container that has travelled a very long distance from the fashionable cocktail menus of modern India. Now ask yourself a sligh...

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