Jack fish! Of the family Carangidae. That’s what a paraw is! The answer all this time was right under my nose, in a Wildlife Heritage Trust produced book by Dr. Charles Anderson, Common reef fishes of Sri Lanka. A book I’m absurdly fond of because it is probably the only thing I have ever won in a draw so to speak, having thus far been unsuccessful in my attempts to procure free items ranging from Plasma screens to sofa sets. I still remember the excitement I felt when I was delivered, by hand no less, in its crisp brown wrapping, unwrapping it to see its ocean blue cover with its frontispiece of silvery yellow fish swimming past a coral reef. I can’t believe I had to suffer all that mental anguish and sleepless nights when all I had to do was to look at the bookshelf next to my bed!