my nana fished the Sundarbans channels his whole life and only ever talked about the Aleya once

second-hand story, my mother's side, so take it as that. they're from the Bengal delta, river-and-marsh people, men went out in small boats at night for the tide. there's a thing called Aleya — marsh lights. blue, sometimes reddish, hovering low over the water and reeds. every fisherman in those par……