I was chatting to a guy fom just near bangalore recently about the price of a cup of tea in the UK.

He works in the tea Kiosk at Leicester railway station where you can buy a regular tea for the princely sum of £1.80.

In India you can buy a cup of chai for 2 rupees from a station vendor.

There are 80 rupees to a pound.

So a cup of tea in a uk station is about 144 rupees.

Many Indian agricultural workers earn about 50 or 60 rupees a day.


The campaign against the mermaid is as offensive if not more so than starbucks prices.