New Delhi: Remember the time when you felt annoyed at the prospect of having to carry around the plump little Rs 5 coins? Then came the dual-tone Rs 10 ones. Large, alien, they never seem to get along with the other coins in your wallet.
And now? A colleague sheepishly admits to breaking open his kid’s piggy bank (with promises, of course, to reimburse when the circulation is back to normal), while another boasts of how he has over the years, accumulated thousands of rupees worth in Rs 1, Rs 2, and Rs 5 coins. The alt-nouveau riche. I could also tell you a story of another friend who spent three asiduous hours carefully unstapling Rs 10 / 20 bills from his wedding garland from 3 years ago.
In this time of crisis, we seem to have collectively discovered the joys of small coins. Here are some expressions of this said ecstacy:
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