I had just returned to Sri Lanka from a trip to India, Nepal and Bhutan. Just before dusk in Colombo, when the city's sweltering heat eases into a salty sea breeze, I decide to leave the house for a grocery run.
A couple of blocks away, I stop at one of several local air-conditioned supermarkets, where the vegetable aisle is full of large onions. I soon notice that they are not Sri Lankan produce. They are not like the onions my parents cooked at home, and they look similar to onions I bought in India from a roadside shack in Goa. They turn out to be imported -- from India.
