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Joyous Onions

Ahmedabad — It was early 2001 and I met a man called Jagdish Nazareth. A simpleton who worked in drought hit areas of Gujarat advising farmers to shun chemical fertilizers and use pro-biotic fertilizer. One fine morning, he gave me 5 kilograms of Onion made from one such experiment and asked me to cut it at home and see if tears roll out of my eyes which is traditionally attached to onions. He was right. It t...