There are moments when a luxury car stops being merely a luxury car.
Not because owning an expensive automobile is illegal. It is not.
Not because a photograph beside a Rolls-Royce proves financial wrongdoing. It does not.
But because time has a brutal way of putting old symbols of prosperity next to new documents of financial distress.
In January 2015, the Economic Times profiled 22-year-old Paras Gupta as the youngest owner in India of a Rolls-Royce Ghost Series II. The article identified him as a director of Mother’s Pride and described a family surrounded by high-end automobiles: a BMW X5 previously driven by Paras, a Maserati and Mercedes E63 associated with his elder brother Prateek, and family vehicles including a…