Anushika Pradhan tending bar at the Dublin Pub in the Maurya Sheraton Hotel in New Delhi , India. NEW DELHI — Yet another British-era law has been toppled like a drunk from a bar stool, in a change that gives women the freedom to make a living mixing the perfect cosmopolitan . In overturning a 1914 law that prohibited women from tending bar here in the capital, the Supreme Court of India this month not only raised a glass to change social mores in this country but also gave Indian women access to one of the most lucrative jobs in the new economy. Prosperity has resulted in the proliferation of trendy bars across urban India and, as upscale as some of them are, with a glass of Bordeaux costing as much as a labourer’s weekly wage, drinking in the minds of middle-class Indians is beginning to lose its whiff of vice and danger. On any given night, in any fashionable barroom in big-city India, women can be seen drinking merrily — sometimes even without th...
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