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A State Under the Influence
From concert floors to coastal routes, Maharashtra’s drug problem is no longer easy to ignore In 1971’s ‘Hare Rama Hare Krishna,’ Asha Bhosle’s languid rendition of the song ‘Dum Maro Dum’ gave Indian cinema one of its earliest, stylised encounters with narcotics. The Dev Anand-directed film itself was perhaps the first to deal starkly with the corrosive effects of drugs. Either way, for years, such portrayals seemed distant from Maharashtra’s reality. Drugs, to the extent th

Abhijit Joshi
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