Kuchela

  What’s the value of a five-rupee coin? Most days, almost nothing. You can’t buy a chocolate with it anymore.  It’s the kind of coin we forget in pockets, ignore at billing counters, or drop in donation boxes.  But there are real instances that make you understand its value - like when you are short of five rupees while you're buying or when a bus conductor insists on exact change. Something similar happened to me once. And on that day, this tiny, ordinary coin became priceless—far beyond its face value.  It taught me a simple lesson of life: never value anything by its face value. The Day Everything Came Down to Five Rupees. It was a tiring Friday afternoon, and I was standing in a long queue at a local SBI branch.  My purpose was simple: buy a demand draft to pay my banking exam fees. “Bank exams? Friday evening? Standing in a queue?” It sounds strange today. But to understand this, you have to travel nearly two decades back— a time when PhonePe or Goog...