Onion prices are at a record high. It sells at Rs 70/- per kg in Delhi.
Now, why is this important? There is a history to it. The ruling party is in big trouble whenever the onion prices have hit the roof in the past.
Onion is an integral part of Indian Cuisine. 80% of the cuisine contains onion. Also, the rural poor eat Chappathi or Rice as the case may be, with hardly any curry but with Chilli and Onion.
Hence, a high price for Onion takes away a major ingredient of their daily meal. And this hurts them and invokes their wrath.
Government has taken steps to bring down the prices by banning exports. But unlike other vegetables, onion is not that easily perishable, and hence hoarders are not worried, but the aam admi is.
The housewife is in tears, not from cutting the onions, but from genuine grief of not being able to afford a vegetable that is so essential to their cooking.
These tears are powerful enough to bring any government down.
Beware the wrath of a woman......................!!
