“Among a certain class this winter, there wasn't a party in Delhi that didn't have cocaine.”

—  Maneka Gandhi

On Delhi's drug problem, as quoted in "New Kicks on The Block" http://archives.digitaltoday.in/indiatoday/05041999/cover.html, India Today (5 April 1999)
1991-2000

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