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Why (Holy) Onion should be more expensive than Chicken, Egg and Milk in India?

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Why (Holy) Onion should be more expensive than Chicken, Egg and Milk in India? By: Vijay Sardana This is a great time to talk about simple insignificant vegetable like Onion when everyone is talking about new launches of iphones, ipads, tablets and new Blackberry messenger. Have you ever seen a newspaper articles on same page talking up rising onion prices and falling prices of mobile and tablets? Pick-up todays newspapers and read them. This is called power of Onion. In last few days, all leading newspapers and TV channels are talking about price rise and food inflation in India. The talk of the town is Onion, because India is the only country where onion prices are political issues and in past government lost elections due to excessive onion prices. The biggest concern is everyone is talking about high onion prices but no one is doing anything about it? Let us understand some fundamental issues about Holy Onions…Why onions are holy because on every important Hindu f