Deleterious bulb is onion,

Yet India’s under-class

Insist on eating onion

With plain chappati, alas.

 

They will not eat a la carte,

Or proper branded food;

Their obstinacy

Is not to be understood.

 

Thus it is that government

Has found a protective device

By elevating the lowly onion

To a seven-star price.

 

What choice will the hoi polloi now have

But to yield to the lure

Of healthful foods so elegantly

Presented by Sanjeev Kapur?

 

So there are ways, and there are ways

Of weaning and atttrition

To save the cussed onion buff

From chronic malnutrition.

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