Probably because they read 'Ribu'r Srabon' together, Aunt Bea?

The blog has taken on enormous responsibility, as some of you might have understood.

The 'instability' we have undergone had been traced to a French photographer, the title of the blogpost was about a Bengali novel that partially disclosed the photographer's identity. 

The United States would always remain a democracy. There was no fear of any monarchy being imposed on it, Americans wouldn't be disempowered. It didn't imply anyone was above criticism or scrutiny.

If the United States remained a democracy, there was no question of managing "that infantile monarchy within the US" from India, as certain people seemed to have assumed was their task. 

Everyone manage their own affairs, you needn't assist the United States.

One of the members of the NS Road household had gotten married in the early 1990s. The wedding reception was held at a railway bungalow rented for the purpose, large and red-bricked. Asansol had a colonial railway infrastructure, hence such bungalows were aplenty, better than what the British had built in Delhi. It was the source of the 'instability', Antara should have been allowed these blogs earlier. 

Thus, while Antara might have been isolated for any number of reasons, the rest of her relatives were gathered together within the railway domain of what was once the Great Indian Peninsula Railway (GIPR). 

Antara thought in modern-day terms, how our provinces had been organised since the 1950s, not how the GIPR had laid out railway tracks, which regions it connected and covered. 

Even her former neighbours had been from GIPR regions, Tanna (Thane), Oomrawutty (Amravati). 

The greatest focus of the allusions work, from the junior college Brabourne dorm? 

Rewa, within GIPR, which often came up regarding the Battle of Hurtgen Forest (WWII).

Even the neighbourhoods where she had lived were named after GIPR regions. 

Of course, one couldn't even mention the relatives, they had all decided to stay within GIPR regions.

It was, therefore, a serious matter, given how the wedding reception from the early 1990s, in that Asansol railway bungalow, had unfolded. A younger relative (a schoolboy then), had had a lot of instant coffee from the vending machine, Anjali had scolded him, it had turned into a severe argument with the boy's father. 

These were tactics used by the likes of Anjali to protect the Tagores. If the Tagores had agents in London to negotiate with the GIPR office on intelligence against the United States, no one else was allowed to tread on the Tagore turf or drink the coffee. 

Why Antara's relatives, or rather when, they offered themselves for GIPR service of the Tagores was not known to Antara. She knew close relatives had been laughed at by Bengalis from Kolkata after the 9/11 attacks, "So your father decided to tie your hands and throw you at the deep end of the pool?"

So there was a 'pool' after the 9/11 attacks, and it was difficult to prevent the GIPR regions from becoming involved in trying to turn the United States into a monarchy.

The blog would try to preserve democratic values.

April 22, 2026.

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Aunt Bea's 'Austrian' wonderland

Since the Nazi Holocaust lasted several years, it seemed that those European Jews who had not been rounded up right away kept receiving instructions from Communist sorts about their behaviour, what they might have for their meals, what clothes they were allowed to wear, who they might visit, what photos they might take on a vacation.

Thus, when historians and researchers looked at photographs of European Jewry before it all ended, they probably didn't realise they were looking at restricted, inhibited lives in photos, that their freedom had altogether disappeared when the photos were taken, that Jewish life in photos was not authentic. 

Of course, when we mentioned Communists, we implied those Americans that lived in the United States and followed the Communist ideology, not anyone from Asia, these American families had been awaiting the sinking of the RMS Titanic to make a political/ideological point. 

Apparently, there was quite the spurt in population by the summer of 1913, Antara had come across that sentiment often, "Cold weather did wonders for humanity". 

She hadn't understood that it implied that if you sank a ship while your own operatives aboard survived and made it to the lifeboats, then it would be quite the challenge to turn that (foreign intelligence) situation around a century later, hence the chest-thumping exhilaration of 'Turn Us'. 

It dictated the behaviour of Antara's former colleagues, including at HT, some of them were fond of her, but what would Antara do about these American families that rejoiced (quietly) when the RMS Titanic sank, ruining the Agency forever?

Sometime in 2001, Antara and her then bf/now spouse were having lunch at Jadavpur University AC Canteen. Where were the ACs/air conditioners, Antara never found out. It was a loud place, windows wide and always open, preferred by the engineering students. Antara thought it was too big and the food oily, somewhat like the ongoing Iran War, at least OPEC could put an end to the 'Iran Explained' videos?

Not that Antara etc were unwelcome at the AC canteen, the engineering guys would await their turn and once the then bf/now spouse had gone up to fetch the food, one of them would come up and look her straight in the eye and say, "Can I borrow your pen?" 

That was what the 9/11 attacks had been about, it was the same as the sinking of the RMS Titanic, 'give me your lease and your military', Antara was glad the blame game was over (Class Act, 'Aunt Bea's Wonderland', April 20, 2026).

The then bf/now spouse used to be harassed as well, the guy serving lunch at the counter had said in the winter of 2001, "What's better under a quilt in winter, the wife or the other one?" 

It was a Golden Fleece reference, the then bf/now spouse had said, "I'll ask my father and get back to you." 

"Oh no no no, what a thing to say," the guy had burst out laughing ('chhee-chhee, ki bolchhen'). 

Thus, when there was no way to get the Agency past the crisis of the RMS Titanic sinking or for Golden Fleece to admit that it recommended Aunt Bea to the Agency, given Antara couldn't float her own ship for vengeance, where was the point in her reaching the United States, all she'd find was the 'Agency of Turn Us'.

What a challenge, when did Antara say that she needed the Agency, that she would bother to take the effort to turn it?

Given that ludicrous logic put forward by the NRIs to keep Antara away, 'replacement' was abandoned, the same RMS Titanic argument would apply to her relatives, when it came to the RMS Titanic, they were on Antara's side. Why should they have to negotiate a new crisis?

The allusions indicated that Antara was not treated well by the Germans. When the eventual victims of the Babi Yar massacre were being gathered, the local Ukrainians had apparently shouted out insults to them, all about the intrigues they'd been planning to save the legit lease, the US Govt and Jews worldwide. 

"The Ukrainians had known all along, they didn't like us at all," the victims had apparently thought in their final moments. 

Thus, the 1980-Mykolaiv document was meant for a much smaller US Govt than before, keeping in mind what WWII did to Europe and the reduced stature of the lease family. 

Not everyone who strutted around was fully govt.  

April 21, 2026

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Aunt Bea's wonderland

Okay, it was a bad situation. 

Antara had actually believed that the Ajit-Anjali household was her home.

Even when they shifted to Purulia, in April 1996, she didn't have any doubts.

Government officials were transferred, Ajit had requested for a posting in Purulia (his home district), Antara didn't have her narrative, how would she know that it implied 'Austria was comfortable with The Return (presumably of Palestinian refugees)'?

Antara was not there when they shifted to Purulia, she was at her junior college/Brabourne hostel. Anjali had described the situation over the phone, "Surely people have shifted before but the sibling was bringing the House down, burning garbage, it was ash all around".

(This was a couple of years after India's successful streak in global beauty pageants began, which brought it closer to Donald Trump and the Sun City-luxury resort-South Africa value system.)

Antara talked to Anjali once the latter had shifted into govt accommodations in Purulia. "Large, spacious rooms, you'd like it, nothing like where we've been before."

Why would Antara like such things? Was she an Indian girl of high intellect, on her charpoy, gazing into the skies and planning celestial journeys? Antara was a humble, law-abiding citizen, wrote short stories, hoping it would be considered good enough for the high literary skills of the Indian publishing industry.

It followed that the television with its cable line, in that spacious living room, was also for the Ajit-Anjali household, not meant for Antara, the cable offered unlimited channels, especially foreign ones, what Asansol didn't have, was it Purulia or Utopia or Perfectia?

Berlin Tunnel? Washington DC? Moscow? The world at their feet? Austria too? What happened on Sept 11, 2001? How did that dream run end? Who did it to them?

No, not the sportspersons, the Palestinian soccer team had been recognised by FIFA in 1998. 

Not Bollywood, which closely followed Swedish music group ABBA's songs, trying to understand how Antara would falter and fail under Tagore excesses, as her generation of females led lives beyond her ability to achieve ('Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! A Man after Midnight').

Not even the world of business, it wouldn't have allowed ESPN Magazine to be launched on March 11, 1998, good heavens, it was the first issue, its cover said 'NEXT', it was no longer a puzzle.

An asset management firm, global leaders attend the inauguration of the Palestinian State in the late 1990s, and they would have walked away to glory, leaving Antara in India.

Antara wouldn't have been surprised, she had heard all her life, "You were not related to us, you were not even adopted, we just picked you up from the streets and fed you."

A British OTT firm was offering hints, formed by the merger of Premium TV and Inform Group, now called 'Perform'. 

"It was important that Antara's academic studies continue, that it was not disrupted while she was an undergraduate at Brabourne. Her allusions would later serve a purpose." 

April 20, 2026

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Aunt Bea, we know we had a Jane Doe problem

One of the problems arising from the 'replacement' scenario was that Antara would become 'Jane Doe' in any litigation.

Earlier on April 17, 2026, the BT-Pratibha marriage had apparently been described as "a reaction to how Communists had surrounded Europe's Jews in the 1930s...thereby a marriage whose descendants were irrelevant and couldn't be considered". 

The statement had probably emerged from London, Kolkata and Beijing.

Thus, Antara was at the receiving end of the classic "Boroline treatment" or so she had heard in Bengal, Boroline was a perfumed antiseptic cream.

"Put thick slabs of Boroline on the eyelids, climb on to the nearest British railroad and fall asleep," Antara had heard Bengalis tell each other, and in such a case, Antara would become the 'Jane Doe', for she was born and grew up in West Bengal, and they were readying for slumber. 

The blogpost was meant for the weekend, to check how the Asian/Far Eastern stock markets reacted on April 20, 2026/Monday morning. 

Thus, as in 'Rose vs Royal College of Physicians' (known as The Rose Case) of 1703-1704, if John Seale (or the US military) complained about the 'replacement', the British wouldn't rule in favour of 'Jane Doe'/Antara.

In fact, such publicity might legitimise what NS Road had done, 'replacement' might become the norm, what these intelligence operatives needed. 

And keeping in mind that the Carnegies and the Rockefellers had not made their stances clear on the RMS Titanic, whether they supported American tycoons or Bengal's towns and villages, any mention of 'replacement' by the US military would turn it into a 'secret society'.

"It was a Circassian female refugee, at the most, why was the US military getting involved? Must be connected by some secret cult or society, hence the need to avoid interaction, otherwise her batchmates had been touring India all through."

And it was 2026, not 1703-1704, the sibling might even say, "Were discussions of 'replacement' allowed on the blog? Wasn't AAP supposed to be derived from 'Know-Nothings' of the United States, why should it have access to information?"

We had found out about the sibling's British associates, and they were okay with these discussions, the blogposts were keeping people secure.

April 17, 2026.

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An impromptu discussion of Jordan, for Chhondo and Aunt Bea, Antara couldn't afford Taj Hotels

Many of the Tagore plans, including the supposed 'annexation of Jordan', to influence Ukraine's fate, took place during the Bombay Tournament, also called the 'Bombay Pentangular'. 

It was an "annual cricket competition held in British India from 1892 to 1946".

One could imagine the weight of responsibility that was descending on the US Govt, consider the significance of the above decades leading to the rise of Adolf Hitler, and how the US Govt would rather listen to Aunt Bea when it came to international politics.

Did no one think within the US Govt? These cricket matches were held in the Gymkhana Ground in Bombay. The Israeli woman Antara and her spouse had met in early 2024 had often mentioned the Gymkhana Club. 

These cricket matches were also held in the Deccan Gymkhana Ground in Poona, didn't the US Govt know that Aunt Bea had married in Pune?

Later, these matches were held at the Brabourne Stadium in Bombay, so at least let Antara write freely about Lady Brabourne College, Kolkata?

"Heh Antara, it was only about the Tagores and their intrigues from the Bombay Tournament, and in case the legit lease family got involved as well, it was not your worry, your parents didn't share the narrative with you, they kept it to themselves, their elder daughter and NS Road. Even if BT had known/had interactions with the Bombay Tournament, Antara would always be excluded from it."

Well, Antara went to Lady Brabourne College in Kolkata, on her own, why couldn't she and the former students discuss their own narrative, even as her relatives jealously guarded the Bombay Tournament/Pentangular and whatever happened there?

You'd think the Parsis were to blame, but no! 

At school, one of the Asansol AG teachers had provided the right allusion, "Polly put the kettle on", the teacher would frequently say, referring to a classmate who went by that name. 

Next, at Brabourne hostel in Kolkata, there was a huge and sinister kettle put out during dinner time, to collect hot water for the thermos. 

Those from Asansol AG Church (like Antara and a few others) were supposed to connect these two, "So Polly Umrigar, the Parsi cricketer, could apparently set Britain on the boil, in a complicated way, which implied India needed to head the ICC (International Cricket Council), else it would turn into a race riot."

The Indian Govt didn't consult Antara, those it consulted had surely solved the allusion for Polly Umrigar.

It was getting strange, Umrigar had studied at St Xavier's College in Bombay, Barack Obama had addressed its students during a US Presidential visit to India. 

Had Obama not been alerted about Umrigar? Or had Obama been alerted yet Brabourne Kolkata's students were still being harassed?

Was Umrigar capable of seeing through the legit lease, given the propaganda department of NS Road? (Really, Foochoo, you went with Emma as well, and Mads, not Tubul of childhood? Or was there no Tubul in your childhood, what was the Bengal scene saying?)

Umrigar's father had a clothing store, and Anjali's obsession with 'suiting-shirting' in the 1980s meant the US intelligence community would be provided new outfits by NS Road, Umrigar wouldn't have a say, that was the level at which Britain was operating.

(We should drop anchor somewhere, not a good thing to float so far away from reality.)

There had arisen a chance for MI5 and Umrigar to assist the legit lease once Antara got married to a family that the British knew. However, Umrigar passed away in November 2006, Antara's marriage was formalised a few days later, in December 2006. 

It worked out well for the British.

So, tell us now, why so uncomfortable with Sarawak and Singapore, dear Brit?

You didn't lose to NS Road on your way back to Britain in 1963, did you?

April 16, 2026.

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Why couldn't you let go of either Japan or the War on Terror, Aunt Bea?

As long as we were with Aunt Bea's restrictions, the sibling could have visited Delhi after 2014, she could have come several times every year, locals wouldn't have complained.

The Delhi citizenry apparently feared a Washington DC-based female professional soccer player, one of the reasons the Alamo Girl had been brought to Delhi, because the Alamo Girl had once played soccer (in high school, good grief!)

It should have been obvious to Antara, "Layers would look really nice on you," a senior hair stylist had told her in Delhi around 2014-2015. Antara ended up looking like someone else (obviously the dark-haired female soccer player) through those years, she didn't have her narrative, what a waste!!!

However, it was a good thing she didn't 'investigate' it, as you might understand.

Had the sibling visited Delhi between 2014 to 2024, she'd have realised that the Washington DC-based female soccer player was five days younger than her, born in the same year, the same month. 

She would have also realised that if she was indulged on the Communist side, it was nothing but that, for the mood that STAVKA had apparently shown in dissolving/disintegrating the Soviet Union in 1991 had been beaten when China hosted the inaugural FIFA Women's World Cup in 1991, the same year.

"Anjali played ping-pong in college, the Nixon-Kissinger ping-pong diplomacy followed a decade later? Well, there's a free kick to oblivion, from China."

If that was not bad enough, the second FIFA Women's World Cup (1995) was held in Sweden and won by Norway.

Sweden was not even a WWII country!!

Let's go back to the situation as it existed in 1995, Antara and the sibling were standing on the terrace of their Pologround Housing flat, it was around March-April 1995, the sibling lecturing, "From here on, our paths would diverge, we'd go our separate ways, our closeness would come under strain."

Whereas, the sibling ought to have said, "Quick, Sweden was hosting the FIFA Women's World Cup, we'd tell each other everything. Goodness, at least in a WWII country it would have meant the Tagores, this was someone else altogether."

The finals of the FIFA Women's World Cup was held on June 18, 1995, a few months after the above conversation, at the Rasunda Stadium. 

Antara remembered a Bengali comic story, quite derogatory about those who "smelled of onions and garlic on bus and train journeys". (It was called 'pyanj-rasun' in the Bengali story.)

That was the problem with Softbank, Aunt Bea, no one was convinced that Ray Cave (CLASS ACT blogpost, April 14, 2026, 'We couldn't always stop for Aunt Bea') didn't get Softbank interested in Afghanistan, through such a lengthy tenure of the Bidens.

Otherwise, good work Germans, you did know how to endanger women like Antara and those around her by gathering around Ray Cave and those that worked with him.

April 15, 2026.

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We couldn't always stop for Aunt Bea

Did Antara have an idol? No.

Did she have a writing idol? No.

Did she idolise her parents? No.

Did she criticise everyone? Almost yes.

How did her parents react to the above? They pleaded, "you have to tolerate some people".

These were the stringent demands made of Antara since her childhood, they'd never change, the sheer number of people who died in the two World Wars of the 20th century meant she didn't focus on any byline except her own. 

When Antara read foreign publications, she skipped the bylines, the names of whoever had written the news reports.

When Remnick etc came to JLF in 2012, she had to search online for who Remnick was, she had never looked at the names of the staffers of a magazine nor would she ever do such a thing.

Thus, the importance of Ray Cave to Afghanistan or even to Indian tycoons was not the same as Ray Cave's insignificance to Antara. He had passed away in Aug 2020, during the pandemic lockdown.

Certain bosses at various newsrooms had tried to alert Antara about Ray Cave, was he a danger to Indians in some way?

For example, Ray Cave was supposed to have a "keen sense of design". 

A senior colleague at HT (not Hazra) had taken a foreign magazine (business mag), showed Antara page after page of that magazine, its astounding design skills. 

"You think we could do it here (in India), with our design teams, what did you think?" he had said.

"It would be difficult," Antara had said, wondering if anyone would ever go home if pages had to look like that.

"Think about it, one might need it someday," he had told Antara, the latter had sincerely promised she'd do so.

In designing her own apparatus, Antara was now close enough to those intricate designs shown to her at HT in early 2012, it meant it could be done in India but she'd have to do it alone, the allusions were hers, what would others do? Follow up on what she was doing? Discuss it with common Indian folks? Report on their narratives? Would NRIs and Silicon Valley allow that?

Another boss in a different newsroom had brought up Ray Cave's "sharp eye for writing talent" which meant Antara would be attacked with Nazi Holocaust denial, Numbers blackmail, Weimar Republic intrigues, the last one was being discussed as people would know.

Ray Cave's "use of colour photography"...well, at HT, Antara and her departmental head had once spent Rs 10,000/- on a single lead photo for the Book review page (you had to buy it from Getty etc), and then, they took it on a greyscale, think of that, such expense and then to get rid of the colour.

[In Kolkata and its suburbs, many wives still thought that Nazi Holocaust research could be thwarted by using defence firms to control the photos from the Nazi camps. Think of that, what those wives had done to Antara.]

April 14, 2026

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