
Originally Posted by
Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
No, they still have govt beer and wine shops and you still get beer in tourist restaurants. They only have bars in 5* hotels now. {Many moons ago, in Allepay, I found a 4* hotel with a nice, dark bar with mild AC which sold G&Ts for only a few rupes more than the really cheap boozers where the poor downed neat, fake scotch.}
But as someone who always just bought beer and vodka from the govt shops and drunk beer in the restaurants, the change banning cheap bars didn't affect me.