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You could pay with a normal credit card (like everywhere else) up to the 1st of Dec.

Reserve Bank of India has a rule about all CC transactions needing 2FA and Uber wasn't complying with it. They recently shifted to a prepaid wallet mechanism to do payments.

There's very little awareness around the fact that you can dispute credit-card transactions in India.

Pay using a prepaid wallet now that Reserve Bank of India wants Uber to comply with regulations in place-- which is to essentially use 2-factory auth for every online credit/debit card transaction.

Uber's Akshay wrote a very condescending blog post about it calling 2FA an "antiquated" security measure: http://blog.uber.com/2FA

I don't like the tone of the blog post TBH.

Uber got into trouble with RBI by charging a credit card directly. They then resorted to using a third party service called Paytm.