Save the endangered species called paisa
Recently, I offered to give chechi[1] 50 paisas as two 25 paisas. She threw her hand up in the air refused to take it from me.
"Nobody takes 25 paisas anymore".
I thought it was a one of case, or maybe she has gone mad. Little did I realise that many more ciggy shop owners ( peddlers) are going to tell me the same thing. Then it struck me.
"Paisa is going to get extinct"
There is just one more coin-gene pool left. The 50 paisa coin. Considering how quick the 25 has followed the 10 to the graveyard ( It is well inside my living memory and my living memory is not that long), I started getting jitters. Is paisa going to die altogether in another 10 years ? Also, Ours is possibly the only nation where paisas still have some value. Considering the value of a money in other "Rupee countries" such as pakistan, sri lanka or Nepal, I think there is a better chance of the paisa surviving in India.
Is it not our bountiful duty to preserve it ?
What can we possibly do? As techies, work endlessly so that we export quality software, create more demand, start more startups, increase FDI, increase forex and GDP, make the US pay for everything in rupees and somehow hope that the value of money goes up phenomenally. Or, just start donating paisa coins to the museum nearby and vow to take our kids to show them the wonderful world of paisas.
Just my two, I mean 50 paisas.
[1] Mallu for sister. She runs a shop(kadai) and sells important goods. I spend more time at the chechi kadai than at home trying to do nasty things to my lungs.
"Nobody takes 25 paisas anymore".
I thought it was a one of case, or maybe she has gone mad. Little did I realise that many more ciggy shop owners ( peddlers) are going to tell me the same thing. Then it struck me.
"Paisa is going to get extinct"
There is just one more coin-gene pool left. The 50 paisa coin. Considering how quick the 25 has followed the 10 to the graveyard ( It is well inside my living memory and my living memory is not that long), I started getting jitters. Is paisa going to die altogether in another 10 years ? Also, Ours is possibly the only nation where paisas still have some value. Considering the value of a money in other "Rupee countries" such as pakistan, sri lanka or Nepal, I think there is a better chance of the paisa surviving in India.
Is it not our bountiful duty to preserve it ?
What can we possibly do? As techies, work endlessly so that we export quality software, create more demand, start more startups, increase FDI, increase forex and GDP, make the US pay for everything in rupees and somehow hope that the value of money goes up phenomenally. Or, just start donating paisa coins to the museum nearby and vow to take our kids to show them the wonderful world of paisas.
Just my two, I mean 50 paisas.
[1] Mallu for sister. She runs a shop(kadai) and sells important goods. I spend more time at the chechi kadai than at home trying to do nasty things to my lungs.