RISING PRICES

Prices are soaring up and up and God knows to where. Prices are like the clouds which are always flying higher and higher in the blue sapphire sky. Prices always go soaring high up in the blues while the quality of the products is hitting the rock-bottom. These rising prices are like the English weather, they are very fickle, ever changing, and ever increasing.

These rising prices seem to be in love with as they are always in search of attaining great heights. They are like Gulliver in the Land of the Lilliput, where the role of the Lilliput is played by our dishonorable quality of the high priced products. Gone are those good old ‘bullock cart’ days of ‘a dime a dozen’. This is the age of Androids and smartphones where only 500s and 2000s work. For the price of a lion’s share you get only chicken feed.

The rising prices are supposed to be in proportion to your salary as per the DA norms. But no sooner one enters the market after collecting your entire pay, you will hear (witness) the catastrophically, devastating news of the volcanic eruption of prices due to the sudden, unprecedented rise in the – salary – heat of the pocket.

The prices are like the Indian population. There are always multiplying geometrically in terrifying numbers. These prices are inversely proportionate to the market demand. to meet the ever increasing demand, production schemes are introduced to supply the necessary demand of the products. But with today’s manipulation of the market conditions, as the demand increases, so does the supply dwindle – God knows who swindles!

Thus due to shortage of supply, the prices go sky-rocketing. But I cannot imagine, how in Heaven’s name do these prices climb such terrifying heights without any fuel, without burning any mid-night oil, nor do they have elastic legs or wings.