Possible Clues:

• Fail always to avoid Indian food
• Fish eaten dried with curry dishes as a savoury
• Lad visited by doctor with answer -- avoid fish
• Teleost fish also known as the bummalo
• Fish served as a pungent accompaniment to Indian food
• Fish for explosive? Yes — and mind your head!
• Small Indian fish
• Food from packet I agree to avoid
• Dried fish eaten with curry
• Poor batting performance at Mumbai, one being caught in the deep?