Author: Premendra Mitra
Producer: Ghanada Club
Synopsis: Along with the other clothes, Bonowari had sent a fatua to the local dry-cleaning store. He hadn’t realized it belonged to Ghanada. Ghanada became furious as soon as he found out that his fatua was at the dry cleaners’. In an attempt to calm him down, Gour told him it was good that Bonowari sent it to the dry cleaners’, as it was dirty. The mention of the word ‘dirty’ irked Ghanada to no end, and as a result, he boycotted the boat party, which had been planned weeks ago. Since then, he hadn’t interacted with anyone in the house, except for Bonowari and Rambhuj. The others made hundreds of plans to pay him back in his own coin, but, could not come up with a solid one. Then the opportunity came, during a power outage. Scared in the dark, Ghanada himself came down to the hangout room downstairs and started telling them a story, explaining why he thinks that a little bit of mud on the clothes is so valuable.
The story takes us to Mato Grosso, in Brazil. Ghanada’s friend, Belmanto, had bought a ranch in that area, and Ghanada was visiting him. Belmanto’s dream was to make his ranch the Numro Uno 1 in the whole world, where he would breed the best quality cattle and horses. After reaching the place, Ghanada had found his friend to be gravely distressed. Belmanto had then revealed that he was about to sell off the ranch, at a very low price and leave the area forever. It took Ghanada a while to understand what the matter was. Soon, he realized Belmanto was withdrawing because of the attack of swarms of mosquitoes. Immediately, Ghanada had found the solution, and had taken out his trousers from his travel bag. One of the trouser legs had a speck of mud on them, and that speck of mud did the trick. Before going to Mato Grosso, Ghanada had roamed around some flooded rivers, in Argentina. The strain of mud must have come from there, Ghanada guessed. That mud had the miniscule eggs of a specific kind of tiny fish, called Cynolebias belotti. Locally, it is known as the Pearlfish. Ghanada had sprinkled that dried mud powder in the dried-up canals and swamps near the ranch. During rainy season, the mud got wet, and within half an hour, several Pearlfish came out of the eggs. A single fish can destroy at least fifty mosquito larvae a day. At the age of three weeks, the female fish starts laying eggs. Each Pearlfish lays around three hundred eggs in a week. After the floodwater recedes, those eggs remain dormant, in the dried-up mud.
After this, Belmanto never had to worry about the mosquitoes, and now, he has the best ranch in the world.
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