I saw these kids outside TGI Friday's (I know, lame, but I've been eating Indian food since I arrived, and the spices are tearing me in half) selling crayoned pictures they had drawn to sell to sympathetic tourists in the market near where I am staying.
When I walked out, I thought I'd buy one of their pictures.
But when one named his price, 20 rupees - about 41 cents, U.S. - someone came out of the bar to tell me, "You are not helping them, sir. They receive none of the money. It's a racket, sir. You are funding a racket."
What are you supposed to do?
I bought his picture for 20 rupees. Here it is, grease stain and all:
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