Onions

The onion (Allium cepa L., from Latin cepa "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium. Its close relatives include the garlic, scallion, shallot, leek, chive, and Chinese onion.This genus also contains several other species variously referred to as onions and cultivated for food, such as the Japanese bunching onion (Allium fistulosum), the tree onion (A. ×proliferum), and the Canada onion (Allium canadense). The name "wild onion" is applied to a number of Allium species, but A. cepa is exclusively known from cultivation. Its …

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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 21 May 2024 English

Mal Pahariya Adivasi women working in the onion fields of West Bengal's Murshidabad district explain their priorities – work, food, then vote – to PARI in the run up to …


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 November 2023 English

First History Lessons is a series of books published by the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata (IDSK). Aiming to simplify and explain important ideas of history, the series has been …

grocery store—tea, sugar, chocolate, potatoes, onions, wheat, flour. You can’t count the number of items


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 21 February 2023 English

On February 21, International Mother Language Day, PARI reaches out to migrant workers across India to understand the interplay between land, language and livelihoods in their lives

roasted peanuts, and roasted black gram mixed with onions, tomatoes, green chillies, salt, mustard oil and


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 September 2022 English

This book was published by the Azim Premji University in September 2022. It is written by Dhruti Somesh, Rohit Rao, Ranjini Murali, Seema Mundoli and Harini Nagendra. The Kannada term …

lentils, vegetables and greens are tempered with onions, curry leaves and mustard. Greens like Dantu, garlic, curry leaves, red chillies and fry till the onions are golden brown in colour. · Add a little salt seeds, curry leaves, red chillies and onions. Fry till the onions are done. Add the drained dal and greens Cumin seeds (1/2 tsp) · Red chillies (3) · Onions chopped (3 to 4) To be ground to a coarse powder add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, red chillies and onions. Fry well. · Add chopped greens and cook until


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 22 August 2022 English

Meet the 27-year-old who is equally at ease running an eatery on the banks of the Brahmaputra and making people in his village look beautiful

[about an acre] farm. “We grow rice, tomato, potato, onions, garlic, mustard, pumpkin, cabbage, and chillis


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 31 March 2022 English

stove] or ‘kandyachi paat ’ [green stems of spring onions]. Do we regard a woman as a human being?” Tara


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 15 November 2021 English

For six months every year, salt pan workers in Tamil Nadu’s Thoothukudi district labour under a blazing sun to harvest the most common kitchen staple, weathering poor working conditions and …

and a kozhambu (gravy) – typically, with fish or onions or beans. For the side, there is karuvaadu (dried


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 11 August 2021 English

Lockdown losses, major surgeries, jobless husbands and other struggles have hit Vandana Koli and Gayatri Patil, who sell fish at Mumbai's Colaba market. But the two find comfort in their …

day. The dock was closed. We did not even have onions-potatoes at home – such was our condition. We were


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 11 January 2021 English

At various sites in and around India's capital – Tikri in west Delhi, Singhu on the Haryana border, Shahajahanpur on the Rajasthan border – as well as in Maharashtra and …

‘foodstuffs’ – including cereals, pulses, potato, onions, edible oilseeds and oils – may only be regulated


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 31 December 2020 English

Savita Gunjal, a 16-year-old Bhil Adivasi farm labourer and singer-composer from Nashik district, kept everyone’s spirits and resolve high on the jatha to Delhi by Maharashtra farmers with her wonderful …

both farmers. They grow wheat, bajra, rice and onions. Savita’s younger sister, Anita, who studies in


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