Agra-vation beggars belief

Here's a resolutely urban myth: if you give to one person begging, twenty others will congregate around you until they too are sated by pittance. If this doesn't happen in Agra where poverty runs through the gutters of the tourist trail, where does it happen? I spent the last fortnight giving, mostly soap, pencils and bananas to children and this mendiant manifestation is yet to materialize. If you flaunt your wealth in front of your peers, why not in front of the poor?