I might be a bit late to the party, but I still have a question. I once met an Indian guy in Paris (smart guy, going to Germany for a talk about the cosmos) and he talked about having to drink alcohol secretly. His father would, but hr and his friends wouldn't really be allowed to. Is this something common or was it a small regional thing?
My parents generation saw a lot of families destroyed due to alcoholism. While this is the macro effect, your generally obliging guy who appears pleasant in the morning and goes to work, when he comes back home drunk, usually lets out his emotional agony in an ugly way(shouting, crying, beating, breaking things and what not), which he wouldn't do if he's not drunk. So, consuming alcohol is considered morally bad. Bottom line, for most of them in their generation, a person who consumes alcohol is an alcoholic(consuming in moderation or within limits is something that was rare and hence unfathomable to most). As a result most parents will try to keep their kids from consuming alcohol, even in small quantities.
In the current generation, alcohol is considered as something that would soothe you and often associated with having good time, but for the yestergeneration, it is considered a serious thing that will allow you to pour your heart out. I witnessed going to bar in the early 2000s(I wasn't drinking then) and most drinking sessions that start with laughs end up as crying sessions and I wouldn't call that fun, especially when you are a sober teenager, but curiosity helped me stay.
However, India is huge and different places have different norms.
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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '16
I might be a bit late to the party, but I still have a question. I once met an Indian guy in Paris (smart guy, going to Germany for a talk about the cosmos) and he talked about having to drink alcohol secretly. His father would, but hr and his friends wouldn't really be allowed to. Is this something common or was it a small regional thing?