Before 1987 and after

No one understood Anjali. Hence we were trying to piece together her life. It was a gradual process, it would take time.

Where was the point in collecting Enrico Fermi-related work (especially those Auschwitz inmates who were questioned about Fermi) if your neighbourhood was against Tagore? 

Well, you seem to be sure of many things and many places without ever being there. 

Antara's work had just reached the place where Elmaleh's network was supplying information against the US Govt to that neighbourhood.

Did it sound familiar, Elmaleh? Why didn't anyone from the 'surveillance' inform you? Why didn't the Agency inform you, we thought the top brass answered to no one but you? 

After a bit of Elmaleh, we digressed to other topics, Antara didn't find any anti-Tagore work in her childhood neighbourhood, not as yet.

ii. But you were making complicated points about the Agency, whether it used Wehrmacht intelligence before the lease was lost to Japan in 1987, if it stopped doing so after 1987, and why did it stop. Again, Antara was lagging behind, thinking Gupta was trying to prevent contact with Germans. 

Oh no, you were so much ahead, you were disciplining those that might have had contact with German ideas in the 1970s and 80s. Not German people, merely German information. 

Why did it matter? Around 1940, the Germans were asking people everywhere about why the Indians felt in a certain way about the War or the ghettos. 

Do you want to go back there as well, why did Germans ask anything at all, why did they not obey orders, as they'd eventually do?

iii. You were worried about early model German weaponry and later model German weaponry. If the early model weapon systems collected a certain kind of intelligence and disappeared, if the Central Intelligence Group (later Agency) derived from such intelligence and how to make sure loyalists of these early model weaponry were identified, both in India and elsewhere.

To achieve the above, you were using USAF wives against Antara, to degrade her life to even lower levels than the last decade.

Why didn't you ask CQ? He was familiar with Pologround Housing, he'd know how to track such people, or what the Agency thought of them. 

Why the bizarre necessity to always grab a bunch of American wives and unleash them against the likes of Antara in India?

Just because Antara was not secure in a House or a base?

Who did Kolkata distrust in the East for such fortifications? Bangladesh or the junta in Myanmar?

July 3, 2025.

Trump-Vance attack with Iran-Contra

The blog had to be revived because Antara's medication was force-stopped by Trump and Vance. 

Again!!

"On behalf of the NRIs, Trump and Vance had pulled the Iran-Contra blackmail and showed the US Congress what it was worth, what the NRIs thought of it.'

Now listen Donald Trump, very carefully.

We were not very well-to-do, my parents wore cheap local-made wristwatches. My mother had an HMT wristwatch, an Indian company. You know, 17 or 21 jewels, Antara no longer remembered the exact number. 

It stopped working in 1987, the year the lease was lost to Japan. It couldn't be repaired. My father wouldn't buy her one. She didn't have any income of her own. There were no mobile phones, everyone wore a wristwatch, except my mother.

The real face of Austria was known to us, we didn't have to suddenly turn into a wealthy chimera in the US in order to look for it.

Years passed, then decades. "I was probably the only individual in India not allowed a wristwatch," Anjali would say. 

"I'll get you one when I get a job," Antara would reply.

Antara did buy her a wristwatch, in 2006 or 2007, after she started working as a journalist. Anjali lived for another couple of years.

You know how to calculate, Donald Trump, especially with those numbers of impeachments? 

Now 1987 to 2007 was two decades, how long Anjali didn't have a wristwatch. Do you understand what it meant?

You were teaching Iran-Contra to our family? 

You were trying to cripple me waist downwards by making sure the medication didn't work? 

You were telling me about Austrian blackmails used during Iran Contra, about a slice of pizza? 

How dare you? Those who lived Iran-Contra, those who were humiliated by Iran-Contra? 

Donald Trump and JD Vance, you could pick up slum girls from any tropical city and dance with them. But you wouldn't insult the US Govt with your dubious choice of advisors.

Donald Trump and JD Vance. Resign right now, let go of your mockery of being citizens of the United States.

July 1, 2025. 

Through the looking glass

It was apparently said that you couldn't proceed with Nazi Holocaust research unless at a German spa town or at a Swiss sanatorium. You couldn't use the word 'prisoner' or 'hostage' to describe such a researcher, it might cause offence. 

But the Agency had spent many decades purchasing influence within powerful American families, its efforts couldn't be jeopardised. Also, the Vatican was often restless about who was researching what on the Holocaust, though strangely enough, Antara kept it informed. 

It was like Antara already knew how the truths would line up, one after the other.

The source of the Nazi Holocaust was known to the lease family but hardly discussed. Europe had taken a collective decision to convert to Roman Catholicism, in order to altogether reduce the clout of the German Protestants. Europe was even willing to bear the heavy-handedness of Moscow's behaviour, for it had seen the future. The so-called 'foreign intelligence' agency of the US, buying up powerful American families, and then trading with Indian royals for influence, within an Indian setting. 

The above scenario, Europe would not be able to tolerate.

The lease family had not been the focus, for it had become an international upheaval of such strength and intensity that the lease family's best intelligence outfits were not being able to explain what Dwarkanath had devised. What had Dwarkanath planned for, what was so crooked, so amoral, so ruthless?

At such times of crisis (the decades preceding the Nazi Holocaust), utter confusion prevailed. The French gave up on their underground royal intelligence, all corrupted by the Tagores, they said. The lease family altogether shunned the British, even the worst of the legit leases signed had better morality than what the British were offering.

(If the United States became isolated because of Agency activities, if its military became insecure, then France and the lease family would take the blame.)

ii. What was the reason for such crisis? The NRIs, to be sure, for the NRI phenomenon had been misunderstood. No matter how they were chosen, the NRIs in the United States were supposed to behave like Dwarkanath's militia, learning about events from several centuries ago, using local resources like libraries and museums and historical foundations. 

But Antara's lease discussions were mostly about Islamism and the 9/11 attacks, or Artificial Intelligence and Sam Altman, and although there were NRI techies, the bulk of them were not equipped to handle such discussions. That was when the Agency was called in, because the NRIs were not being able to manage.

Antara could thus have taken a stricter, more strident stance about the Pentagon coup. At the worst of times, Washington DC had abundant military intelligence, it would help Indians lead their lives, and because of our globalised lives, Indians were used to picking up such hints. 

If it became necessary, there might be 'themed discussions' of the Pentagon coup on Antara's blog, what Antara found worrying but what she was being unable to prevent.

June 21, 2025.

And what else was known?

It was like speaking to inanimate objects. 

No financier had lease details.

It had to be put together, all the details, for the lease narrative.

You could have lease details from the 1960s or whenever but we lived in 2025, how would it be relevant to our times?

Rocketry was not science, it has been there for quite a while.

Science required understanding that made a better planet, and it wasn't a better planet, so it wasn't science.

ii. Not any of the above would be read or understood. The last of the financiers had fallen, wearing an Indian fabric shirt. How was that individual a financier? An actor, memorised lines from a handed-down script, was the final word on the lease? You should have seen them rushing, so triumphant, so excited.

What a sorry, silly attempt to prevail at any cost.

iii. Indian Communists were apparently getting impatient, their victory was delayed. That victory was assured? Who provided such assurance? Those who didn't know how to put the lease together? 

What would happen if victory didn't come their way? The torture on Antara would be cranked up, surely, that one didn't come at a cost. 

In case victory didn't come to Indian Communists, there would be no introspection, no self-blame, no analysis of whether they were trying to grab something that didn't belong to them. 

Those who wrote blogs were amateurs. Those who didn't analyse their own actions were difficult to write about.

June 20, 2025. 

Wise and (thereby) defeated

There was Aam Aadmi Party extravaganza all over Delhi. Antara was asked to focus on it rather than on her former school. Was it possible to separate the two?

The Aam Aadmi Party celebrations were apparently about forcing the Federal Bureau to move 12,000 to 15,000 officers out of Washington DC. When it was first proposed, Antara had written several emails on the topic. It was a different dispensation, a different administration. Given that an NRI headed the Federal Bureau, wouldn't he take those very decisions that have never been taken in the history of the United States? What could Antara possibly add to it?

Washington DC was not "heavy in crime", so went the NRI guy's logic. It could mean different things to different people. Antara might think the Prussian fraudulent lease was enough reason to allocate sufficient number of Federal Bureau officers for the DC area. 

Why was it so? For the last decade (since 2015), AAP had been using an anthem about sharpening one's instruments, it was called 'kainchi chhuriya tez kara lo', referring to kitchen tools. It played every morning wherever Antara stayed, without fail, sometimes on a loop, sometimes for a few minutes and then the autorickshaw playing it would go away. 

In fact, the 'kainchi chhuriya' song was the reason Antara had tried immigrating, for the first time in her life, in Nov 2017. 

It didn't work out, Antara got her narrative instead later in 2018.

ii. As far as Antara's research had yielded, AAP's confidence was always based on NS Road and the Prussian fraudulent lease. In fact, one of the explanations of the Iranian missile attacks on Tel Aviv on June 19 was a request, "No matter what she was writing in her blog, do not follow up on it, she was coming too close, there could be no investigation".

Which was fine, the crimes committed against Antara couldn't take place without the complicity of the entire Middle East, Shias and Sunnis and Israeli Jews. They had forgotten the Tagores, they had thought Antara was the enemy. We can see the consequences of such muddle-headed thinking.

AAP relied on the Prussians' biggest intelligence shop in DC, which was from Sheffield in the United Kingdom. Sheffield was known for its metal instruments, hence AAP's anthem about 'kainchi chhuriya'. 

By itself, it wasn't a big deal, why couldn't DC shut down an intelligence shop from Sheffield? As it happened, the particular Sheffield company was suspected to be a side-business, a 'front' for President Ulysses S Grant, right from the 1870s. Whatever be the truth, Sheffield stayed relevant in DC, and AAP thought great opportunities lay ahead, things that no one had heard of.

Sometimes, it was wise to hold on to things that one had found out.

iii. Another request was to discuss the Close Female Relative. She had studied in Asansol AG Church for six years, through the 1980s, some of it coinciding with Antara studying there. For all six years, she was in the 'B' section, hence the impression in the West that the Agency declined irreversibly through those years.

Apparently, there was no way Close Female Relative could study at Section 'A'. See how difficult it was to discuss such a topic? Yet Iran's overzealousness, its urgency to do the right thing for the Class of 1995, brought it about.

Asansol AG made sure that Section B always had a different set of class teachers, there was hardly any swapping through those years, such that the teachers who taught Close Female Relative were unknown to Antara. So no discussion of Antara's future at home, all decisions left to herself, as we had found out from earlier blogposts.

Treated differently at home, treated differently at school.

At school, Close Female Relative would be part of the huddle that decided gifts and shopping and subscriptions, she was entrusted with funds, she was chosen a prefect, she was Captain of a House, she led the parade holding the school banner, she participated in fire-drills wearing real firemen's uniform.

Antara was the reject, the weird one, "can't even walk properly", teachers would giggle at each other, "why was your face like that, have you stolen some cows?" Ajit would say at the end of the school day, when he went to fetch her from school. The full cattle-car treatment.

As of now, the NRIs were incredibly powerful, no interest group had ever been so dominant in human history, without much to show for it. 

What would happen after that, when people started wondering why Antara was neither desired at home nor at school (nor within the marriage, as it turned out)? 

Indians had smart answers, "Have you wondered if you were the problem?" but those answers were used in the 1930s, why there were six million Jews less in the world. 

What if Antara's parents were sued? Not because of Close Female Relative, Antara loved her a lot, but for failing to report that the class teacher of 5B was called Mrs Banwar/BanWar and the class teacher of 10B was called Mrs Mannan/Man-None.

Asansol AG wanted to ban wars and then have scripted conflicts at designated No Man's Land? Why did Antara's parents hold back that information?

June 19, 2025.

How to talk shop in Washington DC?

Asansol AG Church and ACJ had apparently agreed that they had broken up Antara's marriage, assisted by Donald Trump and JD Vance coming to power in Jan 2025. It was hearsay but it seemed somewhat characteristic of them.

"These were powerful entities, and using the Russia-Ukraine War, the KGB had put in place an impenetrable barrier between Washington DC and Antara. That way, no one cared about her health or finances, it was not surprising that she'd collapse and the Indians and NRIs emerge triumphant."

Why could Putin not manage an "impenetrable barrier" from Moscow? Why did he need the services of thousands of middle-aged men and women in or from India? Was wasteful use of resources a Kremlin trait? Must be a lingering after-effect of the Cold War, when bread and other grocery supplies were plentiful across Moscow. Or not.

ii. Let's find out if such Moscow practices were implemented within Asansol AG Church. 

One had to pay subscriptions, several times a year, in order to buy a gift for the class teacher. Usually, these school events were called 'Teachers' Day' or 'Children's Day', to mark the birth anniversary of some national politician. (Always a politician, but it was such an annoyance if the blog dealt with political matters. When was it all right to be political and when did it become irritating?)

These subscriptions were not collected by the school. Officially, the school was not aware of any such practice. There would be a huddle of girls at one corner of the classroom, the funds/budget decided, individual contributions calculated by dividing the decided budget by the number of students in the class. Then began the announcements.

"We have decided to show our love and respect for the teacher by buying her a gift and a floral bouquet," any one of the familiar names would start. 

Who were 'we'? That huddle at the corner?

"You could also buy personal gifts if you wanted to, we wouldn't prevent it."

For what reason? Certain students would immediately buy personal gifts as well, apart from the subscription one, what happened to those (like Antara) who didn't buy personal gifts? Was teaching at a school a profession/career like any other or was it some kind of self-sacrifice?

"Don't worry, we would be showing you the gift but it would already be wrapped up so we would hold it up high, in front of the class, we cannot pass it around."

Phew, pay good money to show love and respect, then see a wrapped object with something indeterminate inside, from a distance, with no right to touch it.

"Of course, the floral bouquet would be visible, that everyone could enjoy."

(Self-explanatory.)

"For food, we were thinking about pastries and bakery products..."

(Remember, the lengths to which the Indian authorities had gone to disrupt Antara's food supply over the last decade, what kind of an abysmal diet makes one so unwell? These individuals from the school were an intrinsic part of that authority.)

"Now B, you stay near the market, you get the floral bouquet, MNOPQ, the five of you go shopping and pick up the gift, latest by so-and-so day."

Were you serious? That was an "impenetrable KGB barrier" between Antara in Delhi and Washington DC? What on earth did Antara undergo in that school? How much did her parents know? 

What did the above refer to? How would Antara ever know the implications of the above if DC and London remained against her Nazi Holocaust research?

June 18, 2025.

True minds

The western world has agreed to sacrifice the lease in order to thwart Antara.

That was the decision at the G7 summit, a hasty meeting of minds, no disagreement, most dignitaries left much before the summit was scheduled to be over.

From what one heard, AAP and Kejriwal didn't even manage to come up in the discussions, lest particular Indian royal families get identified with the AAP obsession. 

(India was a multi-party democracy since the 1950s, most Indian royals have contested and won elections for the INC or BJP, what did those political parties lack that AAP was offering, so not something you could solve at G7 if you had to exit in a dramatic fashion.)

ii. Most employers of Antara's peers were apparently confident that they could maintain the status-quo in the employment sector for another five years. No one kept the Buckingham Palace in mind, which meant unemployment was the problem, not lack of wealth. Had the Windsors been employed at corporate offices, their needs would have been taken into consideration. 

If the Palace could not identify which family member had cast racial slurs at Meghan and why, it would remain a human rights violation. Antara's lease proposal, which focused on human rights, could then look deeper into the racial tensions within the Palace. G7 was an Indian royals' club, but it had its chance, and did not care for the Palace. 

The above was one way of disrupting the western world-Global South bonhomie. 

iii. Another would be to check if JK Galbraith was working for NATO, preparing the ground in New Delhi from 1961 to 1963, to make sure certain NATO agents could enter India by the mid-1960s. That was Antara's guaranteed assignment, it had clearance, she wouldn't have to check how Indian tycoons felt about it. 

New Delhi at the peak of the Cold War, LBJ days, the US space exploration programme not yet with Indian tycoons. 

By that time, the western world-Global South bonhomie would be considering couples' counselling.

iv. The third would be Oppenheimer's security clearance hearing. 

One might hear they were not even having the same meals, the western world and the Global South.

If all of the above research took one year, it would cover a fifth of the lease work, given Antara had requested five years. 

Antara missed her parents, never mind how they were criticised on a daily basis, they'd have been so happy that Antara had come that far.

"And your mother didn't eat a thing through the day," Ajit would keep saying, the day Antara had won the Maggi Quiz Contest in 1990.

June 17, 2025.