Almost every Indian meal requires an onion -- one of the cooking essentials along with sugar and lentils that sweet-talking politicians use to curry favour with their voters by lowering costs. But their policies to cut prices by slapping export bans including on onions and sugar, or by allowing duty-free imports of lentils, has made the key voting demographic of farmers furious. "We don’t want anything from the government. All we want is that we should get fair prices for our produce," says Vikas Babaji Tushare, an onion farmer from Nashik. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES ARRANGED IN SEQUENCES