Of late, i.e. the last month or so, my whiskey and rum consumption has increased dramatically. It's not that I'm a border line alcholic or anything, it's just that being in India means that the spirits are dirt cheap and the people around me - my older cousin, the guy whose "employing me" (I use the term "employing" in it's broadest posssilbe sense), and an Indian friend of mine from Delhi - quite like to celebrate of an evening... or afternoon! For instance, if I finish some writing that I have to do, or if we go to a Ram Leela - plays held all over the country from big towns to tiny villages re-enacting the story of Rama, one of the Hindu Gods - or even just to relax after a stressful (yeah right) day in the sun, we find ourselves having a few "paks" (an Indian measurement) or even just go for whole a bottle and getting through that and a pack or two of cigarettes. But apart from copious amounts of whiskey & rum, and the occasional beer, I hardly drink at all...