Indian Kindness: the Man Who Offered Me Coffee

Indian Kindness: the Man Who Offered Me Coffee

ā€œIt will cost you 2200 rupees, ma’am,ā€ a shopkeeper says.

ā€œ2200 rupees for an adapter?ā€ I ask once more, and I am not sure whether those are the rupees that worry me or the fact that this comes in the worst time possible: my life in India is unsettled as never before, I am jobless, I have debts to pay, and I have not yet found my own place to stay. Not to mention the internet.