{"id":13702,"date":"2013-09-12T22:08:52","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T16:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=13702"},"modified":"2013-09-12T22:08:52","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T16:38:52","slug":"onam-in-the-midst-of-rocketing-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/onam-in-the-midst-of-rocketing-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Onam in the midst of rocketing prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>#EnteThiruvananthapuram:<\/strong> There is an age old saying in Malayalam &#8220;<strong>Kaanam Vittum Onam Unnanam<\/strong>&#8221; which means one should celebrate Onam in style even if it comes to selling off one\u2019s property. In these days of skyrocketing prices, Malayalee is feeling the pinch wondering what to sell in order to have a traditional Onam celebration.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Kada.in Onam Kit \" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/celebrate-onam-with-kada-ins-onam-kit\/\" target=\"_blank\">Get Onam-Kit delivered at your Doorsteps this onam. Read how?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-13711\" alt=\"onam trivandrum 2013\" src=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/files\/2013\/09\/onam-trivandrum-2013-768x513.jpg\" width=\"614\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/onam-trivandrum-2013-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/onam-trivandrum-2013-222x148.jpg 222w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/onam-trivandrum-2013.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is reported that, trucks from neighbouring states are crossing the border loaded with bananas, vegetables and flowers all meant for Kerala market, for the past few days.\u00a0 Flowers meant for Atthapookalams are reaching mainly from Thovala in Kanyakumari and Gundlupet in Karnataka.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-13712\" alt=\"onam tvm\" src=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/files\/2013\/09\/onam-tvm-768x513.jpg\" width=\"614\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/onam-tvm-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/onam-tvm-222x148.jpg 222w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/onam-tvm.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Farms who cultivate flowering crops are facing a peculiar crisis there, since there is acute shortage of labour, so that acres of floral fields are withering out. Moreover, the lorry charges have also been steeply hiked due to increase in fuel prices. The net result is that the cost of flowers in our markets has touched an all-time high.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/get-vegetables-at-your-doorstep-this-onam\/\" target=\"_blank\">Get vegetables at your doorstep this Onam<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-13713\" alt=\"trivandrum chala\" src=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/files\/2013\/09\/trivandrum-chala-768x513.jpg\" width=\"614\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/trivandrum-chala-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/trivandrum-chala-222x148.jpg 222w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/trivandrum-chala.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What is an Ona-Sadyya without banana chips? Trucks loaded with raw bananas from Nagarcoil and nearby areas are making a bee-line to Trivandrum to cash in on the Onam season. But our people prefer native bananas to these outsiders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-13707\" alt=\"onam 2013 chala\" src=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/files\/2013\/09\/onam-2013-chala-768x513.jpg\" width=\"614\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/onam-2013-chala-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/onam-2013-chala-222x148.jpg 222w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/onam-2013-chala.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Trivandrum City is gripped by a frenzy of Onam shopping spree. The efforts of Horticrop and Kudumbashree units to provide vegetables at a reasonable price have come as a welcome relief to the Trivandrumites.\u00a0 People are braving heavy rains to purchase, home grown vegetables from Kudumbashree stalls where they get vegetables at discounted rates.\u00a0\u00a0 Horticrop is also providing vegetables with discounts even up to 30%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/onam-fairs-in-entetrivandrum\/\" target=\"_blank\">Find Onam fairs in EnteTrivandrum.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-13706\" alt=\"chala trivandrum 2013\" src=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/files\/2013\/09\/chala-trivandrum-2013-768x513.jpg\" width=\"614\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/chala-trivandrum-2013-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/chala-trivandrum-2013-222x148.jpg 222w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/chala-trivandrum-2013.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>However, this Onam will be remembered by Malayalees as one which managed to burn a hole in their pockets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-13709\" alt=\"onam entetrivandrum\" src=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/files\/2013\/09\/onam-entetrivandrum-768x513.jpg\" width=\"614\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/onam-entetrivandrum-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/onam-entetrivandrum-222x148.jpg 222w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/onam-entetrivandrum.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-13710\" alt=\"onam in trivandrum\" src=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/files\/2013\/09\/onam-in-trivandrum-768x513.jpg\" width=\"614\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/onam-in-trivandrum-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/onam-in-trivandrum-222x148.jpg 222w, https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/onam-in-trivandrum.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><em> Photos by Akshay<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#EnteThiruvananthapuram: There is an age old saying in Malayalam &#8220;Kaanam Vittum Onam Unnanam&#8221; which means one should celebrate Onam in style even if it comes to selling off one\u2019s property. In these days of skyrocketing prices, Malayalee is feeling the pinch wondering what to sell in order to have a traditional Onam celebration. Get Onam-Kit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":577,"featured_media":13714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[388,452],"class_list":["post-13702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-onam-2013","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/577"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}