He’s afraid of drinking, make sure he loses the next election

Psychiatrist: Very interesting. My diagnosis is methyphobia or diposphobia, a psycho-pathological condition. Neurologist: Methyphobia is a medical condition where the sufferer has an intense and irrational fear of alcohol or a fear of people who are ingesting alcohol

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Manas Chakravarty is Consulting Editor, Mint

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