Comments on: Delhi: Getting Into Town From Majnu Katila http://quillcards.com/blog/index.php/2010/02/11/delhi-getting-into-town/ photography, travel, literature, & the environment – and the stories behind the photos that feature in our ecards & prints Thu, 17 May 2012 08:25:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: David Bennett http://quillcards.com/blog/index.php/2010/02/11/delhi-getting-into-town/comment-page-1/#comment-1393 David Bennett Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:29:03 +0000 http://quillcards.com/blog/?p=2364#comment-1393 Thank you for the welcome to India. Without language we will always be outsiders and fail to understand a lot of what we see, but the smiles we have exchanged with people here has bridged the gap in some ways. Thank you for the welcome to India.

Without language we will always be outsiders and fail to understand a lot of what we see, but the smiles we have exchanged with people here has bridged the gap in some ways.

]]> By: Gary Rudd http://quillcards.com/blog/index.php/2010/02/11/delhi-getting-into-town/comment-page-1/#comment-1387 Gary Rudd Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:10:47 +0000 http://quillcards.com/blog/?p=2364#comment-1387 There are as many worlds here as there are castes. Precisely what 15 rupees gets you depends on which part of the social strata one occupies. White westerners necessarily pay the most, then the other visitors and downward from the Brahmins to the untouchables for whom 15 rupees is perhaps one-third of their daily income. It is much more pronounced now that there is a growing and realtively affluent middle-class here in India, but of course they know how to get value for their rupees in a way that a westerner can never expect. And then there is 'baksheesh' which has an economy of its own. Welcome to India which must be learned from day-to-day, moment by moment! There are as many worlds here as there are castes. Precisely what 15 rupees gets you depends on which part of the social strata one occupies. White westerners necessarily pay the most, then the other visitors and downward from the Brahmins to the untouchables for whom 15 rupees is perhaps one-third of their daily income.
It is much more pronounced now that there is a growing and realtively affluent middle-class here in India, but of course they know how to get value for their rupees in a way that a westerner can never expect. And then there is ‘baksheesh’ which has an economy of its own.
Welcome to India which must be learned from day-to-day, moment by moment!

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