Malbari Hotel- An Old Man's Day Dreams.... We can fight the PRICE RISE if we want!!!

We were sitting at the malbari hotel as usual, Siddique master was late and we were waiting for him.malbari came to us and exploded a bomb right on our heads he announced that now onwards a cup of tea would cost fifteen rupees instead of twelve rupees just then master appeared and I told him about malbari's announcement.Master was smiling very cutely like a kid getting hold of an unguarded fridge full of icecream.

I asked him why he was so happy?He could not hold his smile and said that he found a way to fight price hike.Than what he said was a eye opener for all.He told us that he went to buy some vegetable and saw that the vendor paid twenty rupees to throw away two crates of over ripe tomatoes that were not sold due to high price.

Master said that if we don't buy any thing that is expensive the price will come down or the thing will perish and tha vendor will pay to throw it away that is for sure.

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This is being done by the government through consumer societies and the like but we as individual never thought about it instead we try to pay more and more so that we are the first to get the thing no matter how high the price is.Not even thinking that there is always a replacement for every thing like when we need tomatoes in our curry we can use dahi (curd) instead or when we need some sourness we can add vinegar or tartaric acid crystals to get better results.For that matter we can change entire menu and use anything that is cheep and is easily available.

He said  with a smile that his wife did not know this earlier but now she knows this replace the ingredient method and  she also gave some thing to me to think about.

Mrs master told him that to handle the problem of price hike there has to be some more action taken.We should stop buying in bulk and storing things in refrigerators instead we should buy groceries on daily basis.This will decrease the demand and high price ratio.If something is not available in a price which seems right for that, customer should avoid buying it. This will pressurize the seller which in turn will pressurize the government.Every one should take this responsibility.What happens here is those who have money keep on paying high and those who can not afford are forced to pay the same price leaving the lower middle class in real deep trouble.

If we take practical steps and stop buying things for only a couple of week we will be able to control the price rise to a certain extent.

Malbari over hearing all this came to us and asked ,Do you plan not to have tea at my hotel? seeing at the critical and worried look on his face we all smiled and Kiria said only if you offer a cup cost 12 rs if four cups are ordered Malbari very Happily agreed.In a lighter mood at least our problem of sudden rise in a cup of tea was solved.