Mr Mustard

The temptation to have the well-cooked, highly seasoned fish curry of West Bengal, heavy with mustard and green chillies, can be difficult to decline. Anurag Thakur, the Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha, recently went to Kolkata, where he was served shorsher fish curry. Thakur, apparently, is normally a strict vegetarian and has been seen to stay carefully away from non-vegetarian food. For a change, however, he decided to try the fish curry. The young BJP leader wound up enjoying his meal so much that he has apparently decided to have fish curry every time he goes to Kolkata. Of course, this will come as no surprise to Bengalis – they’re accustomed to hearing people say that they’re vegetarian, except for fish, which is, after all, not meat.