Remember the song from Amir Khan's film 'Pipli Live'...'Yeh saiyan to bahut kamaat hai, mehangayee dayan khai jaat hai' (My beloved earns a good deal of money but this witch inflation eats up all)
The latest article of daily use whose price has shot up considerably is the lowly 'Jhaaru' (broom). Ever since a particular political party adopted it as its election symbol, the demand of 'Jharoos' has gone up by 100%. Families are now buying two each- one for cleaning the house and the other for keeping in the drawing room to show one's political affiliation.
Special stalls are being set up in view of, what the learned Mr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia would explain in the World Bank lingo- 'demand, supply side mismatch'!
Here is one such roadside stall that I saw outside the Kila Raipur Stadium near Ludhiana last week.
