Singapore, The City Of Design, Lights, Food, And Modern Architecture
Singapore, The City Of Design, Lights, Food, And Modern Architecture The evening before we left Mumbai, the government of India, without any advance notice, canceled its two largest currency notes, the 1000 ($15) and the 500 rupee ($7.5) notes, in a surprise move to weaken the black market, which runs on undeclared, untaxed cash. Luckily for us, we had only a few large notes that we had planned to spend at the airport, and with no knowledge of what had happened overnight, we tried to make a purchase at the airport. The shopkeeper refused our money, and an Indian woman standing next to us told us that she had 40,000 Rupees in cash this morning, with nothing in mind to do with the money. She had her taxi driver take her to a hospital on the way to the airport, and she used the money to pay the medical bills of two poor patients. She told us that tourists are allowed to convert the notes to foreign Currencies, but only up to 5000 rupees. We admired her ...