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    India is just plain crazy !

    I think if you are focussed on Tourism like Kerala is, then you make it easy for tourists to change their foreign currency and spend it in your state. If you go to Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand.....you can walk out of your hotel, and walk into any bank or money changer, and change USD into...
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    India is just plain crazy !

    They really should stop calling Kerala "God own country". In Small towns in Kerala.....the power can go out about 5 or 6 times a day. A decade or 2 ago.....they were about 2 hours duration at the most. It was a scheduled power cut.....today it could be 5 minutes or 5 hours.....you just dont...
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    India is just plain crazy !

    I just used my US debit card to withdraw rupees.....the problem with doing that is that you get dinged on both sides. The US BAnk charges you a commission and so does the INdian bank whose ATM you use. India needs to change its rules.....I understand the fear of money laundering, terrorism...
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    India is just plain crazy !

    Thanks guys for the tip. Nothing is easy here.
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    India is just plain crazy !

    I am visiting family here in Kerala on a tourist visa. I go to 3 different Indian banks in Trivandrum to change US dollars into Indian rupees......and we are only talking about less than USD $500, not some crazy large amount. All 3 banks tell me the same thing.....that they cannot change...
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