A friend of mine from the Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir gets harassed like crazy when using the "Indian" rate anywhere but in J&K; even at places like the Taj Mahal they asked him -- but not his then accompanying Brazilian and Arab friends -- to prove that he is Indian despite speaking fluent Hindi/Urdu and having never been a non-Indian national. He ends up using government hospital-issued ID but still this discriminatory treatment is ridiculous. Even at "hotels", he is asked to "register" as a foreigner, but after mentioning that he is Indian and not required to have a passport to travel domestically the hotel stops requesting such from him.

In any case, let's see them charge Sonia Gandhi or the former minister of state for external affairs with the "foreigner" rate and then have this third world mentality of ripping off foreigners come to an end.