Sentence examples for one rupee from inspiring English sources

His social commentary on India's telephone campaign "one rupee a minute" is set off by the chilling story of a schoolgirl's suicide.

He would have paid more than one rupee to breathe elsewhere.

If he were to send a postcard at one rupee to each constituent, he will probably have exceeded the allowable amount of spending under the campaign-finance law.

Ganesh said that he gave the deity whatever money he could spare, which was sometimes as little as one rupee — roughly two cents.

A far cry from the official rate of 1.45 baht to one rupee, it still added up to 24 bucks and change.

That was the sum he was expected to give Mr. Pai at the end of every trip: one rupee for the dinner he would be given at around nine o'clock, one rupee for the privilege of having been picked to work for Mr. Ganesh Pai.

In Mumbai's red-light district, a journalist recalls a lonely child playing with a one-rupee coin while his mother entertains clients upstairs; a different writer reports on the ambiguity of familial relationships in India's transgender community, outcasts typically dismissed from the accepted family system.

Hesitating a moment, she added three one-rupee notes to it.

Chenayya undid the knot in the side of his sarong and handed over two one-rupee notes.

Buying four lottery tickets, he broke the note into forty-six one-rupee notestuffinging forty of them near his groin, he gave the six to the shopkeeper.

Along with cheap phones, other celebrated examples include one-rupee sachets of shampoo and clever schemes to get around the lack of bank accounts.