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Lighter bags, heavier hearts: Home, restaurant kitchens feel pinch of vegetable price rise
Those who couldn't buy fresh vegetables would smash open an onion, sprinkle salt and eat it with a roti. But even those days are gone with the humble onion just too expensive, says vegetable vendor Imad Khan, recalling the staple image of the poor in …