Sunaina Panigrahi and Sabita Patil don't really have much in common except the fact that both are married and have kids that are growing up. One is a resident of Odisha and a school teacher. The other lives in Maharashtra and helps her husband in his materials supply business. The first one adores Naveen Patnaik while the latter thinks Raj Thackeray is nothing short of a Messiah. The first one is a Masters in Computer Applications while the latter discontinued her graduate studies when her first kid was born. The two are as different as chalk and cheese when it comes to ideology and world view and personal interests. Sunaina cannot keep her eyes off the idiot box when Big Boss is on air while Sabita tries her best not to miss an episode of Kaun Banega Crorepati.
And yet, both share one passionate feeling: a sense of betrayal and hurt coupled with a deep and abiding anger at Dr Manmohan Singh. The reasons are threefold: tomatoes, bananas and eggs. Or rather their prices. Sunanina says it was routine for tomato prices in her locality to drop to less than Rs. 5 a kilo during winters. " In the last few years, it simply doesn't drop below Rs. 20 a kilo even during peak season. How is that possible. Manmohan Singh is an economist. Doesn't he understand this?"she complains. Sabita is outraged because her kids love omlettes for breakfast and her pocket hurts when she buys eggs. "My husband tells me that India is the largest producer of eggs in the world. Then how come prices per dozen have gone up from about Rs. 20 a dozen to about Rs. 60 now? What is Manmohan Singh doing?" she asks. Both Sunaina and Sabita recently got a Facebook post that claimed banana prices in India were higher than those in America. They don't know if it is fact or not. But they know one thing: inflation has been a curse and they openly accuse Manmohan Singh and his UPA government for this.
Try telling them the following: that food inflation that hurts their family budgets so badly is not entirely the fault of Manmohan Singh. That rising income levels amongst the poor has led to a massive increase in demand for products such as tomatoes, eggs and bananas. It won't cut much ice. Both have a startlingly similar riposte: " If mobile call rates and prices of TV sets can fall every year, why do prices of such daily needs go up every year?" Manmohan Singh is himself a distinguished economist and his core team has many star economists. But can they answer these questions raised by Sunaina and Sabita? The hard truth is: housewives and working wives are very pissed off with the UPA government because it has been a miserable failure when it comes to controlling prices and helping families retain control over household budgets.
And yet, both share one passionate feeling: a sense of betrayal and hurt coupled with a deep and abiding anger at Dr Manmohan Singh. The reasons are threefold: tomatoes, bananas and eggs. Or rather their prices. Sunanina says it was routine for tomato prices in her locality to drop to less than Rs. 5 a kilo during winters. " In the last few years, it simply doesn't drop below Rs. 20 a kilo even during peak season. How is that possible. Manmohan Singh is an economist. Doesn't he understand this?"she complains. Sabita is outraged because her kids love omlettes for breakfast and her pocket hurts when she buys eggs. "My husband tells me that India is the largest producer of eggs in the world. Then how come prices per dozen have gone up from about Rs. 20 a dozen to about Rs. 60 now? What is Manmohan Singh doing?" she asks. Both Sunaina and Sabita recently got a Facebook post that claimed banana prices in India were higher than those in America. They don't know if it is fact or not. But they know one thing: inflation has been a curse and they openly accuse Manmohan Singh and his UPA government for this.
Try telling them the following: that food inflation that hurts their family budgets so badly is not entirely the fault of Manmohan Singh. That rising income levels amongst the poor has led to a massive increase in demand for products such as tomatoes, eggs and bananas. It won't cut much ice. Both have a startlingly similar riposte: " If mobile call rates and prices of TV sets can fall every year, why do prices of such daily needs go up every year?" Manmohan Singh is himself a distinguished economist and his core team has many star economists. But can they answer these questions raised by Sunaina and Sabita? The hard truth is: housewives and working wives are very pissed off with the UPA government because it has been a miserable failure when it comes to controlling prices and helping families retain control over household budgets.
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