Thanks to the hype created by the media around Rahul Mahajans drug episode, the nations attention has been drawn to the drug menace fast creeping into otherwise conservative Indian homes, albeit metros.
Analysts
opine that it all started with the LPGLiberalization, Privatization,
and Globalizationprocess that was launched in the early 1990s.
It is the booming IT industry followed by BPOsthe two significant
outcomes of LPGthat made many enterprising young professionals
endowed with unique skills, filthily rich overnight. It indeed
brought Lakshmi walking straight into many Indian
middle-class families.But
majority of this new clan of young entrepreneurs, professionals,
and high-end employees are often found cribbingthat to stay
afloat in the new competitive world they have to spend five
days a week on a maze of demands and are therefore, ending
up stressed out.
It
is these young entrepreneurs/professionals that are said to
be eagerly seeking to have 3 to 4 lines of cocaine, a.k.a.
"coke", over a weekend, believing that it launches
in them a sense of "invincibility". Indeed, for
some of them, snorting has almost become a "social lubricant".
These "tragic beneficiaries" of LPG era that are
flush with easy cash flows and no parents around to offer
the usual "deterrence" to keep them away from such
"highs" have become the easy victims of cocaine,
all under the illusion that cocaine unlike alcohol is more
positive in its impactit takes a man to a "high"
by unleashing tons and tons of energy, exhilaration, supremacy,
stress relief and above all that it creates an instantaneous
sense of being on cloud nine. |
