A halal drink? :) I think it will take sometime before Mecca cola arrives in India, let alone capture people's imagination like Pepsi and Coca Cola do in India.
Look, we Indians on FR are not saying Coca Cola and Pepsi must be banned or that Americans are killing people with their "wicked cultural invasion", blah blah. We like these drinks. Is it bad to ban them till they get their act together and start putting safe products on the market? We are not proposing "obesity taxes" or even making these companies pay for selling drinks that some people say are bad for health as is. We are just addressing the additional chemicals that should not be there, that are not there in the same drinks in Europe and the US. I think the move of the Indian government is to be appreciated, not criticized.
Some jpeople ust don't have any sense of humor. I couldn't care less what you drink or why.