We cry when onions get expensive, but has anyone ever asked — why are we still buying them raw and whole? Over 95% of onions are chopped, crushed, or converted to paste or powdered before they hit the pan. Yet we keep buying them like decorative bulbs from sabziwala bhaiya.
Onions, like milk, have wild price swings — but unlike milk, they never evolved. Dairy faced gluts and shortages too. What did we do? Built a system: convert surplus into powder, ghee, paneer — then reconstitute it during lean periods. Smart, right? Meanwhile, onions are still playing emotional blackmail with the economy. No ready-to-use pastes, powders, or processed forms at scale. No processing infra. No pricing buffers. Onion Needs a Dairy-Style Revolution. We cannot have Onion That Refuses to Grow Up
If milk got a white revolution, onions deserve a purple one. Or we can just keep chopping and crying, year after year.
