Whose US was it?

 Free, at last!

July 1, 2026.

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Whose US was it? (Strobe lights)

 "At their time of need, the 'baap' got the money he needed, as did the 'beti' when she needed it."

After the above, one should ask, why did the 'giver' always have funds to spare? 

The 'baap' was not getting his pension after almost four decades of govt service, why? 

The 'beti' was apparently bringing out the "best HT product ever", why was her salary stopped by Payroll while other employees were paid?

So we were not being allowed to argue. The 'better half' was already vlogging, because NRI wives "wanted to see Germans on a leash, dancing to their tunes".

Guess what? Today, June 30, 2026, 'baap' and 'beti' were repaying. Take London Station, it was all yours.

'Beti' would catch you up. For a while, London Station had been looking at MH-370 disappearance, you know, when the plane went off and was never seen again, March 8, 2014, on International Women's Day?

'Beti' alerted London Station about the 1994 picnic/visit to Durgapur's Kumarmangalam Park. When you refused to get off the car, didn't talk to 'baap' and his wife, they went for a walk around the spacious park, you sat in the car and had the packed luchi-aloor dum lunch that was brought from home. 

Now 'beti' sat with you and had the same lunch, 'beti' didn't go off with her parents, 'beti' missed the visit to the park. 

For you, surely you, all of 21 years of age, couldn't be left by yourself, on a wintry day, at a deserted parking lot. 

You didn't remember what others did for you. You don't know what would have happened if 'beti' had gone off with the parents and left you alone, maybe you would never get to be such an important person. 

But London Station wanted to know, if both had luchi-aloor dum, if both were meant to access DoD and financiers, why were you chosen and 'beti' forgotten? How did it help the Syrian Civil War?

Was it coincidence that there was a passenger from the Kumarmangalam family on MH-370, was it connected to the visit to Durgapur's Kumarmangalam Park in the 1990s?

Malaysia was just the starting point.

June 30, 2026.

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Whose US was it?

Given the stress levels before July 4, 2026, Antara was asked to avoid blogposts, check what privileges she had grabbed through her life and return them to those whose place she had forcibly taken till the Syrian Civil War (2012-2025) returned the 'correct balance within society'.

Antara would like to return Monalisa, Trina etc, they were her kindergarten classmates, their parents were either British-trained surgeons or taught medicine, Trina's mother headed the Anatomy department of a govt medical college. 

"It was the early 1980s, many families were on the run, unable to reside in West Bengal but with 'mushrooming' of engineering and management colleges since the British Houses were sold in the 1990s, these could no longer be Antara's friends, they had to be friends of successful people."

June 29, 2026.

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The Hungary court

1. Did Antara know about the political affiliations of Asansol AG batchmates?

No.

2. Did political discussions take place while at school?

It did, mostly related to news events, so relevant to what year/which class they were in.

3. Was there any coded way of discussing politics?

Yes, through lawn tennis. Steffi Graf was disliked, Gabriela Sabatini considered skillful and rugged, both these players had devoted supporters among Antara's batchmates.

4. What did Antara think?

Antara secretly liked Sabatini, she was publicly hesitant of those from Argentina. 

At the Housing society annual quiz contest in 1990, Antara had correctly answered the question about Steffi Graf's full name. However, her Asansol AG batchmates didn't know about it.

5. Did these batchmates ever desire to play lawn tennis?

They discussed tennis coaching centres, mostly located in Kolkata. 

Anjali disliked clay courts (as at the French Open etc), she thought "grass courts" was the real test, it would explain why any discussion of Asansol AG was becoming controversial.

6. And the sibling?

The sibling had only one obsession, if Ivan Lendl could win Wimbledon. She had heard that Lendl had apparently bought a castle, with several grass courts, to practice through the year.

Think of it, courting grass through the year!

7. Interesting. Of course, when we were discussing courts, the litfest would come to mind.

That was not a worry. A female editor from Delhi had warned Antara, "You and your spouse were behaving like students at the litfest, taking careful notes from the lectures". 

So JLF was not from Washington DC, it was something else.

8. The Churchill daughters?

Some kind of British admixture, while avoiding the ad-men of Madison Avenue.

9. Let's get this clear, Antara was not brooding over her parents who had passed away, nor the sibling she infrequently contacted.

"They taught me all I knew." They could've done more, probably.

10. And Lendl ought to have known that the attack on Monica Seles was not Hamburg (Germany) declaring it was ready for the 9/11 attacks against the US.

Anjali didn't like how Seles grunted when she served. 

"Was Seles in pain? Why was she playing?" Anjali would say.

It was power tennis, Antara used to reply, even the racquets were heavier.

11. Ulysses S Grant-Smith. Hungary. It was heavier than before. What had Kolkata done? What would happen to the batchmates?

They destroyed the Mir Space Station in March 2001, they were so sure, after the US military units that dealt in WWII passports had been shut down.

A space station, first of its kind, functioned from 1986 to 2001. 

If one somehow got a passport, even a WWII one, Kolkata would have to answer about Mir.

At least Kolkata would have to explain the purposes of JLF.

June 26, 2026.

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One vote: Replacing Russia at the UNSC

1. What kind of visits did Asansol AG organise for school students?

School visits were only for the sibling's batch. They were taken to a hydroelectric dam nearby, also to the manufacturing facility of a fabric whitener (Reckitt), located in Asansol's suburbs, the allusions had indicated that the latter was for indigo plantation reasons. 

Antara's batch was merely taken for a computer exhibition, it was an insult. They were already in Class 10, only a few months left for their high school days to end. They should have been offered Computer Science as a subject, which they weren't, and having denied it all, they went to a boys' school to learn computers from them.

2. Never any visit to any military exhibition, its parades and drills, its educational programmes?

No.

3. Antara didn't perceive it as strange because of her north Bengal days, where she spent her early childhood.

Yes, Antara's parents were full of anecdotes about fighter jets and recon helicopters. 

"So close to several international borders, such stress, I used to wonder that when you (Antara) were born, how would you be able to nap?" Anjali would say.

"But it was about getting used to things, even as a newborn, you slept peacefully as surveillance and recon helicopters created a racket 6 pm onwards, every evening, flying low over the locality."

There were several such anecdotes so Antara didn't feel the need for school-sponsored military discussions.

4. Why was Antara's batch treated differently?

It seemed they were considered close to railroads, so as much as could be taken away from them.

5. Why was Noida brought up for discussions?

It would have happened anyway. Both Antara and Noida were in Blue House, 1987 onwards, they were the best of Blue House, so to say, and spent considerable time together as a result, activities, House-based games etc. 

However, in the House election of 1991 (for Captain and Vice-Captain), Noida won, defeating Antara by one vote, otherwise Antara had always been Blue House Captain for her class. 

It was thereby assumed Noida would get some north Kolkata support but that's not the way the previous decade played out. 

6. And Antara knew it would be so?

Antara had consumed enough social media by 2016 to realise it was only about 'gully boyz' and 'north Kolkata boys'. 

Even when Sealdah railway station (in Kolkata) apparently got a swanky makeover, no north Kolkata person remarked on it.

7. These men would approach the lease only through hydrocarbons, railroads wouldn't be mentioned at all.

Yes, it was confirmed. 

They rode motorbikes and drove automobiles within city limits, they drove between cities in India as well, else they used aircrafts. 

"I try to avoid trains as much as possible," Antara had been told at HT.

June 25, 2026.

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Sea-faring worthy

 1. Tensions running high among Housing boys.

Yes, they apparently had valid stances, they were like Friends of the Reichsfuhrer etc but connected to the Bengali businessmen of Kolkata. Thus, crimes against Jews among both groups, why was it wrong to associate with Bengali businessmen?

2. Clever way to find out what would be the attacks/arguments.

Yes. One such example of attacks/arguments was provided. If you were merely part of Bengali business networks, why did you persecute/close down US military units that dealt with WWII identities and passports?

However, the response was prepared elsewhere, probably at the White House, it turned into non-stop torture against Antara. It was no longer an NSDAP scenario from which one could argue.

3. The Muller arrangement.

Yes, someone's told both of them that the English East India Company was on a leash, which implied past leases were on a leash as well.

So the Tories and their emerging connection to the White House (Republican) had to be discussed. Next, a Chennai-based top honcho of the US Democratic Party had to be dealt with, separately.

4. Did you find out why they were holding you?

Yes. The trading community had complained that Antara knew about the navies. The complaint probably reached the White House. The latter immediately gave the go-ahead for excessive behaviour to friends, family and others. That was 2010-2011.

No subsequent Presidential team bothered to reverse the above so their stances on navies was quite similar.

 5. Nothing about the Fed?

No. If Antara wrote blogposts about the Federal Reserve, meant to assist Austria and Germany, she won't owe them anything. They'd have no say over her life and decisions.

6. And to the White House?

It attacked the 'Russian narrative', wherever it emerged, in FACSIMILE or elsewhere. That was not correct, the 'Russian narrative' apparently wanted to solve the death of President McKinley. Did the White House not even care for previous incumbents?

If not, why was it so?

7. Any clue as to why the White House distrusted the Russians?

Yes, somebody, in recent times, over the last decade or so, told the White House that Russians had no connection to Prussians, what Russians claimed as Prussians were 'legit lease' people. At the mention of the 'legit lease', the White House apparently lost it.

Anjali had an anecdote about someone's cottage in a Bengal village, a part of the earthen floor was raised, like a circular plate, they washed it daily, ate off it, didn't use utensils. 

It implied Prussians were 'raised' from among the legit lease people.

June 24, 2026.

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The learning curve

1. Did it not bother you that since the 1980s, the British knew where the lease was, how it was being misused, that they could have brought it back to their country?

It was like Ajit returning from a visit to Kolkata. Antara would hurriedly take his briefcase inside, to see what clothes or confectionary or sweets he had got for them, and he'd call out after her, "Sorry, didn't have time to shop for stuff. There was no time at all."

2. Muller's arrangement wouldn't survive the lease being brought back to Britain, despite the backing of British and French tycoons.

Especially because of them, since they knew about Eisenhower and where he wanted the legit lease to go (CLASS ACT, 'They've paid with French philosophers, Joan!', June 22, 2026).

3. It wouldn't impact any discussion of the 1942 Wannsee Conference? Those who couldn't bring back the lease from Japan would be able to step into Muller territory of the 1940s, or support research that tried to figure out why the Wannsee Conference was meant to be publicly known?

Not a valid comparison for the White House in Washington DC.

It would say, "Asansol AG had already solved these matters, you had House meetings huddled in the school corridors."

4. They'd own up to prior knowledge of the 1942 Wannsee Conference? Both of them?

They have acknowledged the Iran War would prove costly. What did it imply if not further disclosures about what the White House and the corridors knew?

5. What kind of decisions were these? They were not willing to pay a researcher's stipend, not respect any investigative work, Antara had repeatedly said her research would look at the genocide, not the individuals?

It was an assertion against certain schools in India that were well-advised.

For example, Noida may have had a Wall Street firm advising her on the challenges she was facing. After the 9/11 attacks, as the Wall Street firms capitulated to NRI and Communist assertions, its earlier thinking, the advice it provided, would change. 

All of us would think our lives were changing for the worse.

6. And if you had access to Wall Street firms before the 9/11 attacks, you'd also have information on Tagores and other Indian topics.

Not just that. The NRIs were alleging that Antara knew these girls, so it didn't matter if Wall Street firms had no direct interactions with Antara. She could have learned from Noida and those like her.

7. What did Antara learn from Noida?

Oh, the simplest meals in her school lunch box looked delectable. Noodles, no veggies, no soy sauce, smothered in ketchup. Four decades after she saw Noida eat that, Antara still thought about it.

8. But she walked home with her maid?

Yes, they lived close by. The maid carried the umbrella.

It apparently depicted the assignee of the lease, the one who had the rights and the benefits to help the legit lease heir.

9. And yet Starmer had to resign. Over Tasmania.

Yes. The contractual violations around the legit lease were so terrifying, no wonder the White House wanted to discuss the 1942 Wannsee Conference.

June 23, 2026.

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