07-05-2006, 09:38 PM
<b>Cocaine may be new status symbol in India</b> <!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->That's clear on any given weekend at New Delhi's trendy clubs and bars â places with velvet ropes and steep cover charges â where drugs are readily on offer, and, occasionally, openly in use.
A twenty-something banker at an elite New Delhi country club says that when he lived in New York it was common to snort a line or two of cocaine. "Now I'm back here ... and so are a lot of other people," he said. "But we're still living like we did in New York."
He asked not to be named for fear of India's stiff anti-drug laws and "my mother-in-law."
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A twenty-something banker at an elite New Delhi country club says that when he lived in New York it was common to snort a line or two of cocaine. "Now I'm back here ... and so are a lot of other people," he said. "But we're still living like we did in New York."
He asked not to be named for fear of India's stiff anti-drug laws and "my mother-in-law."
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