--- "Frederick Noronha(FN)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Firstly, given the low margins (and I'm not > justifying this) in India, a > lot of over-charging does take place. Not just to > visitors from abroad, > but even to others. I routinely get overcharged > while travelling in a > rickshaw in Bangalore or Mumbai.
Fred, the issue here was we were shown one set of menus with one set of prices, and when charged, we were charged a different higher price. It would have been OK *if* we were shown the higher prices at the very start, which is when we would have made up our minds whether to eat there or not. And it wasn't a "Rs 20.00 a rice plate" place either - a bit more upmarket than that. > Incidentally, talking about luxuries, entertainment > (including films) was > long considered a luxury in India. Perhaps this > tradition goes back to the > 'fifties and 'sixties, when sufficient food was a > luxury even for the > middle-classes here. Here? Where? In India or in Goa? We're going completely off-track from the topic. I won't go further into details except to state that sufficient food for the common man in Goa was not a problem in the 50s, contrary to India's situation. Gabriel. Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com