Banks in India.

Keoladeo, 24-02-1995. After nearly a whole week together full time we spent some time apart today because Rona had to change money at one of the banks in the nearby town. Now banks in India can be a tricky thing. The are usually two guards around in the lobby, dressed in a colonial looking cacky colored uniforms, epaulletes and all that, armed with enormous ancient looking muskets. They seem to spend most of their working time sitting around smoking beedies non-stop and drinking chai. The office itself is stacked bottom to ceiling with files and paper work, the law of dust rules in these places!!! A bank might be a bank but In Indian banks it is not all that unusual they tell you to come back later because the bank is out of money. A bank in McLeod Ganj told me to come before 11.30 h. in the morning otherwise they would have run out of money....And even when they have money and no other customers, you still might have to wait a considerable amount of time before they find it. If these musket armed guards don`t scare off possible bank robbers, then the total lack of booty surely will.