SO Dialogue: Decoding India’s Onion Crisis
India’s double-faced onion crisis poses a policy challenge with implications for the large segment of the population. With no good substitute, onion is an integral part of your average Indian thali. The rising onion prices thus hit the poor consumers th
By Spontaneous Order
India’s double-faced onion crisis poses a policy challenge with implications for the large segment of the population. With no good substitute, onion is an integral part of your average Indian thali. The rising onion prices thus hit the poor consumers the hardest. Not only that, the knee-jerk reaction from the government to tackle the crisis, in turn, creates new problems for farmers. Indian state’s interventionism harms farmers who incur losses. Tune in to the Spontaneous Order Dialogue where Barun Mitra and Vivian Fernandez unpack the political economy of India’s onion crisis.
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A peep into modern Indian history by some of the finest liberal minds, who sought to shred the banality of pseudo-socialism in Independent India. In a country dominated by false political values, which had, in fact, no basis of existence neither in the independence movement or the native soil, SO brings out the dynamics of a political order that could have changed the country forever.