You know onions are expensive when…

• Banks start doling out ‘onion loans’
• Antila's monthly onion bill exceeds its monthly power bill
• The lens in the camera in front of Arnab Goswami in Times Now studio doesn’t have to be changed – everyday 
• Pakistan starts exporting something else other than terror
• Sharad Pawar talks about hiring cricketers for onions
• They start featuring in Niira Radia’s latest tapes 
• Rajya Sabha MP Rajiv Chandrashekar is unable to buy enough onions with the dowry he got
• Film festivals are dedicated to them 
• The US president gives a ‘state of the onion’ address ;) 
• Pakistan starts flooding Indian market with fake onions instead of currency 
• You start getting a kg of onion free with every purchase of a luxury sedan 
• Breath freshener sales plummet suddenly without any rhyme or reason