Mad Ramadoss

Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss, the Union Minister for Health, always finds one contentious issue or the other and joins it to get some cheap publicity.

This is what he says now on the ongoing debate over Pub culture in India:

"...but the pub culture must stop. It is because of this that youth in the country have taken to drinking in a big way...It is not our culture. If it goes this way I don't think India will progress."

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Oh ! is it. I didn't know about it. The last time I knew there weren't any pubs in Guntur, Vijayawada or Tiruchi, the cities I used to live in. But how come I was the only one who didn't drink amongst our batch of friends in each of those cities.
Alright. Lets put that aside for the moment. Here's another byte from the man himself, a few months ago:

"Section 377 of the IPC, which criminalises men who have sex with men, must go.. [link]"

Wow. So much of an intellectual paradox. I wonder what is it about gay sex that does not affect the culture of India as much as pubs do, in his opinion.