Several years ago,I authored a column in the Times of India called 'Onion Flakes'.
Onions have several layers, as you very well know.
And the prices of onions have recently made many people cry -- and cry foul!I was browsing through my friend Thomas Lim's paper, The Meghalaya Times, the other day.
I was surprised to learn that the Shillong administration actually slapped notices on traders for selling onions for seventy rupees a kilo, more than the 'stipulated price of Rs 63 for white onions and Rs 68 for red onions'.
And here we were cribbing that onions are selling at an all time high of forty rupees in Patna!
The District Monitoring Committee in Shillong has fixed retail onion prices at Rs 46 to 60 for the first week of this year. How about that?
2 comments:
Whoa! I never knew onions could cost so expensive...We are lucky that here it is much cheaper!
For the annual day you'll get it for 42 minus three layers. The arithmetic of economics is perfectly understandable.
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