Paper money in India.

Keoladeo, same day. Since we`ve started to talk about banks in India, let us not forget the india rupee....Now money is dirty and I mean that literally being passed from one hand to the next etc. But I`ve to as yet find a country where the local paper money is as dirty as the indian rupee. The rupee seems to last much longer as our own...notes that would have been taken out of circulation back home will still change hands many times each day in the streets of India. Needless to say that indian money can feel a bit sticky and look tatty. However dirty it might be, everybody will accept it as legel tender unless it is ripped. Even the slightest rip and you could as well use it as toilet paper. Never mind when a Rp. note has a whole in it the size of you fist, pas de problem. They staple the notes together at the bank and rip them loose again when the need arises.