India's Illicit Liquor Crisis: Poverty, Greed, and Regulatory Failures

People, often poor, drink cheap, dangerous alcohol made by bootleggers.

This alcohol can contain poison like methanol.

Bootleggers get the methanol cheaply and mix it, sometimes badly, causing deaths.

Police and politicians are sometimes involved, making it hard to stop.

Laws are in place, but convictions are rare.

Stopping this requires tackling poverty, inequality, and corruption while enforcing stricter regulations and possibly centralizing the framework for methanol transport.