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    When I was a little girl growing up in Bombay, June was the month I looked forward to the most. It was the month when the charred, inky monsoon clouds, clipped with streaks of lightning, brushed away the fetid summer heat. It was when I went back to school with my new books, 51 carefully in crackling-new brown paper. 52 , June was also the month for the Bombay duck to grace the kitchens of Parsi homes such as mine. This delicious monsoon specialty, 53 is most plentiful and easiest to catch during the rains, was how I marked the time. It pinned the season into place. The Bombay duck is actually a fish 54 the waters in and around Mumbai. Fiendishly ugly, it is gelatinous and pink-skinned with a gaping maw. Moreover, the root of its curious name is 55 .