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ulta pulta
Three tears for onions
Jaspal Bhatti
  The
national outrage over the spiralling costs of onions hasn’t
made any difference. Onions continue to give tears to the aam aadmi.
Reports of onions from Pakistan just fill space in newspapers!
Recently, when I heard the news of Income Tax sleuths descending on
the godowns of Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh to nab black marketeers,
I quickly rushed to the kitchen. I asked my wife to dispose of the
three or four onions by making a sabzi so that we, too, do not
be listed as onion hoarders. The IT department could always ask us to
show our source of income for purchasing those three or four onions.
A few months back, I
overheard a spirited drinker say about someone, "Arrey!
That fellow is no good. He can’t afford to have a chicken leg with
his whisky. Bechara, he can just afford to have onions with his
drink." And now in today’s scenario the talk could be "Arrey,
that guy is stinking rich! Imagine being able to afford onions with
whisky."
The day is not far off
when the bridegroom’s father will demand that he doesn’t want
dowry! All that I request is that the baraat be served with
food which has onions in it,’ he might say.
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