Residents of this Bihar village remain immune to sky-rocketing onion prices

The residents of Triloki Bigha, a village in Chiri Panchayat area of Jehanabad in Bihar, haven't consumed onion for as long as they can remember, thereby leaving them immune to the sky-rocketing price of this root vegetable.

Jehanabad (Bihar): While the entire country is reeling under the exorbitant rise in the price of onions, the residents of a quaint village in Bihar couldn't care less about the temporary shortage.

Triloki Bigha village in Chiri Panchayat is located around 30 kilometres away from the district headquarters of Jehanabad, and the nearly 35 families residing in this village haven't consumed onions for as long as they can remember.

"We just don't eat it, we don't know the reason behind it, but we haven't consumed onion for as long as I can remember," said a woman resident of the village.

The usage of this root vegetable is prohibited in this village to the extent that a resident is simply not allowed to bring onion inside the village.

While most of the villagers are unaware of the reason behind the prohibition, some of the elderly residents argue that the existence of Thakurbari temple in the village prompted their ancestors to give up the consumption of this vegetable.

A woman from the village claims that there was an attempt made by a family to lift the inexplicable ban around four decades ago, but an "ominous" incident with the members of the same family prompted the continuation of the ban.

Chief of Chiri Gram Panchayat Sanjay Kumar said, "the residents of this village have been following this tradition for years. One can also associate it with superstition."

Apart from onions, consumption of garlic, meat and liquor are also banned in this village.