Coffee makes a splash in tea land

Sam Nagarajan Bloomberg News Tuesday, October 22, 2002
India's growing middle class warms to American-style cafes

BANGALORE, India At a Barista coffee bar in downtown Bangalore, 16-year-old Diya Desai sips an iced cappuccino that costs more than the daily paycheck of two-fifths of India's 1.1 billion people.
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"We don't drink coffee at home, we drink tea," said Diya, a publisher's daughter, sitting with her friends Damini and Bhargavi, whose fathers are a software company executive and an interior designer. "This is the place we come to have coffee."

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