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The Mumbai police has given an address where we can write in requesting for card payments and mobile wallet payments at the airport pre-paid cab counter. I just wrote in. Request you all to do so too and share this. We can at least try The ID to write in is : feedback@csia.gvk.com This is the text of my mail: Hello, My name is Kalyan Karmakar. I am a food and travel writer based in Mumbai and am a frequent traveller who uses the airports at Mumbai very often.  I recently flew into T2 from Hong Kong via Kolkata. I didn't have cash on me as I had left country before the demonetisation drive. I wanted to use a card to book a pre-paid cab at the airport but couldn't as they don't accept cards. I finally took a Meru and requested my wife to pay when I reached home. Luckily I had 100 Rs to Pay the convenience fee. My request to you is that you should ask the pre-paid taxi counter to accept cards and mobile wallets such as paytm to help us citizen...

I rarely comment on social or political issues as I prefer not to speak about things I am not fully aware of. The current demonisation issue has led to lot of strident comments on social media from both of sides of the fence and stands are usually extreme rather than nuanced. So I decided to write a post on this on Facebook. Sitting at a place which doesn't accept cards and where I had to depend on my wife to buy my breakfast. Here's what I wrote: I'd been out of the country when this demonitisation thing happened. Didn't have cash on me but was not affected much personally at the beginning. I couldn't buy fish for my granny from local markets when I reached Calcutta as I didn't have cash and had no time to go to a super market. It was not critical.  I had to intervene on her behalf to make a payment to the worker clearing the garbage at her place. Neither of us had non 500 Rs notes to give him and being a daily labourer, he couldn't take a day off work ...