Ah, budgeting in this season is like tying a sack of coconuts with a fraying rope, no? My wife, she keeps the household accounts in a small blue notebook—every paisa for tapioca, kerosene, the boy’s bus fare. Last month, I sold a bunch of Nendran bananas for less than the cost of the organic neem cake I put on the soil. That is the truth the government’s charts never show: the one who grows the food cannot afford to buy it for his own table. I tell my son, ‘The real price of subsidy is hidden in the farmer’s bowed back, alle?’
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