Visitors to Mumbai often ask me how liberal this Indian city really is, given that one arm of its authority appears to be perennially engaged in tamping down our freedom to play and express in public.
An attempt has been made to raise Mumbai?s permissible drinking age to a world-record shattering 25; recently policemen arrested a flock of hapless youth for "dirty dancing"; an aging (and fading) right wing ideologue dusts off the cobwebs each February to spew ire on Valentine?s Day and so on.
Still, visitors ask me this question because regardless of how much moral policing they hear and read about there?s no mistaking the free-and-easy vibe they pick up while they?re in Mumbai.
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