The story was first published by Deb Sahitya Kutir, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, in the Puja Annual titled Abahon (Bengali: আবাহন) in 1948.

While everyone started laughing, Ghanada remained indifferent and asked gravely, "Did you ever have to run after an insect for eight thousand miles?

Did you ever happen to carry out a desperate search for an insect in the deadliest forests of Africa with a paper and a closed phial?"

At the end it was revealed how Ghanada reached the basin of the river Bahr al-Arab in Sudan, Africa, in the land of Dinkas, in search of the mad scientist Jacob Rothstein.

He then used a contagious biological agent to eradicate the swarm of deadly African desert locust weighing three thousand tons, and yet again averted an impending disaster.” [4]