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Finding Nemo

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It was a working Saturday for me and I was quite in the weekend mood already, struggling to concentrate on the mundane paperwork crowding my desk. These working Saturdays are particularly difficult to wade through, especially since my husband has all Saturdays off. The man has absolutely no qualms of peacefully lazing on the drawing room sofa, while I hurriedly make way through the morning rush on a Saturday, sweating and sulking about going to work. Hence, to make sure that I am not alone in this Saturday torture, I often hand him a list of chores to be performed at home, while I am away at work. That day, I had entrusted him with a severely important task – buying fish. Now, many may not understand, but a good fish to a Bengali, is as important as the Sun is to the Earth - we simply cannot do without it. Thankfully, the fish bazaar near our Mumbai home serves a splendid collection of sea and fresh water fishes, such as Pomfret , Rohu , Hilsa , Basa and the like, suiting our budget...