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The growing evidence suggests that, on some level, who we are — litterbug or good citizen, for example — changes from moment to moment, depending on where we happen to be. These environmental cues can shape and reshape us as quickly as we walk from one part of the city to another.

Conflict of interest is part of the consensual and legal package of modernity. It is only when society rationalises and becomes more functionally systematic, when there is separation of roles and responsibilities that conflict of interest becomes an act of corruption. One has to draw lines between roles and functions. In a more narrow sense it comes to signify a clash of interests between two sets of functional or public roles. The recent Rajat Gupta case was an anthropological curiosity in this context. Rajat Gupta was the Indian enactment of the American dream, his career spanned IIT, Mckinsey and Goldman Sachs. For Indians in India he could do no wrong. Even when he was accused of conflict of interest most Indians treated it as a minor misdemeanor. Corporate dons like Mukesh Ambani and Adi Godrej recited elaborate certificates for him suggesting that conflict of interest was a minor flaw in an otherwise seamlessly successful career. What few noticed was that the lawyer investigating Gupta was also an Indian. The two role models competed for attention with two separate value frames. For Preet Bhrara, Gupta’s leaking of information to the fund manager Raja Ratnam was an act of corruption. For Gupta it was an act of ethnic complicity, a sleight of hand trick permissible to a migrant.

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Ever wondered why you ordered a Cosmo in 2010, an absinthe cocktail in 2011, a malt whiskey in 2012, and are rocking up to the bar for a Moscow Mule this year? Drinking trends are as manufactured as fashion week’s must-haves. It’s the bartenders and writers, publicists and editors of the world who are creating them. Dale DeGroff, also known as King Cocktail, is one of those trendmakers. A new documentary entitled “Hey Bartender” celebrates the recent cocktail revolution, illuminating how DeGroff and others have elevated “mixology” to an art form and shaped how — and what — we drink today. “The trend thing is a bit of a pendulum. The pendulum has swung towards the very formal, rigorous mixology with shirt, vest and tie and all these rules and now people have decided that these rules are constraining and this reservation system is constraining and these drinks and the people who make them take themselves too seriously so we should do shots and we should just drink PBR,” he said.

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