You go to a monument somewhere in India and go to the ticket counter…

There are two windows there… which read

Indians : Rs. 20
Foreigners : Rs 250

I would not be very happy to read this… not that i don’t want India to earn more money… not that I did not feel awkward when the foreigner had to pay in $s, but right now its going to be a oranges to oranges differences in the ticket prices… it feels a li’il more embarrasing somehow…

When I was showing a german friend around Delhi a few years back… it was kind hard answering the questions that she asked about why foreigners have to shell out more money than Indians at so many places? do you have an answer to that, something that I can give to people who ask me about travelling to India and visiting all the grand monuments that we have.

Also thing like these, also, in a way encourage the street shop owners to charge the tourists more that the actual price of the stuff they are selling? Something that most of the tourists label as cheating?

Indian authorities have now decided that tourists should now pay in INR instead of $s because the value of rupee is increasing against the $…

Read more about it here.

I wonder how it would be when I have to pay £20 for entry to a museum when someone in the UK pays £2… i guess I would never be able to visit anything…