FEBRUARY 2015

I recently saw Daatu, a Kannada film that I cannot forget.

What do you do when you walk into seafood restaurant after restaurant and discover that the only fish available is flavourless basa? This has happened to me in Goa, Kolkata and Mumbai, when all I was dreaming of was local delicacies like hilsa, bhetki, pomfret and surmai. I screamed, shouted, sulked and then meekly settled for prawns, crabs or oysters instead but not basa—never! See, I’m not taking this lying down anymore. I have decided to become an activist—yeah, I’m going to fight for the rights of seafood-lovers.

The other day, one of the chambers of commerce grimly stated that Indian industry has not really seen any change in fortunes since the new government of Narendra Modi came to power

Lily Tekseng Jaipur