10/15/2011
Not fresh my fish??
It all started a few months after I arrived in Mumbai…
I had been hunting a rat in my flat, without success, when this horrid smell started. Shit, it must be dead in an impossible place to find!! I started looking anyway, without success again.
I then stepped out of my flat, only to realise that the whole neighbourhood smelled of dead rat!
To be accurate, of dead fish.
And here we are, 3 years later, when I finally decide to look into it. The thing that has “bothered” me the most is that this is not a constant smell. It will someday come, stay the whole day and then disappear. So I wondered why…
After some research, I think it depends on 2 things: 1. when the fishermen go fishing which is linked to the moon, 2. the way the wind blows when the fish is drying.
To go a bit into details:
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