Guests use cocktail shakers to prepare a drink at an informal bartending class in New Delhi, India on Jan. 15, 2011. India's growing upper class wants high-end liquors and fine wines that define "the good life" they've seen on European vacations and in Hollywood films. They shop in new malls that are stuffed with boutique brands, and they attend clubs for wine drinkers and cigar smokers. Posh restaurants and health spas are popping up along Delhi's cardboard slum dwellings and crumbling apartment blocks.

Pakistani worker Hamid Shah removes a damaged bottle from the control line of whisky bottling at The Murree Brewery Company in Rawalpindi on July 13, 2010. The Murree Brewery company was established in 1860 to meet the beer requirements of British personnel (mainly army). Pakistan's oldest public company and the only brewery in this Islamic republic produces 60000 liters of Beer, 30000 liters of liquors, like whisky, Vodka and Gin and 100000 liters of non-alcoholic drinks and juices per year after 150 years in business. Only being allowed to sell to the non-Muslim three percent of the 170 million population as under the present prohibition law, only non-Muslims and foreigners are permitted to consume alcohol. The alcoholic production can not be exported to the other countries and non-Muslims can only buy from designated shops inside hotels in Islamabad and also from alcoholic shops in the local markets of Karachi and other cities of Sindh province.