On the auspicious day of Aadi Amavasai on August 6, 1967, residents in and around Krishnampet in south Madras, mostly Corporation conservancy workers, drank French polish containing alcohol. The same day and the next, residents of Walajabad in Chengalpattu district consumed a similar brew. The result was disastrous
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