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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ADA, Brussels, Libya

The blogpost ('Learn about the railways, then discuss Federal Reserve, Pirosh', Dec 28) had apparently elicited furious response from Kolkata. 

Women there had been raging all through the day, "how could anything within BT's family pass from generation to generation, it was all prohibited by US law? Kolkata had been especially careful when it came to railroads, so that no one understood the mistake it made in ignoring railroad families, not trying to establish relations with them, and thereby missing out on crucial information."

"It was the 1960s and 70s, DSE had not considered that anyone would want to ride a train, who'd let go of airlines?" others had pointed out. 

The 'prohibited by US law' set off controversies elsewhere. What was prohibited, that BT might have a granddaughter? Familial ties? Which legislations were being referred to? Who had agreed to such strictures?

It turned out that Kolkata implied the Americans with Disabilities Act 1990, that it was meant to make sure that Antara would not have any independent investigative responsibilities of her own, "it was like she was a dependent of her classmates at Asansol AG Church, as a weak and pathetic individual. Unless they were assisting her, her allusions work would not be considered, it wouldn't be able to stop the NRIs, they could do whatever they wanted to. The Germans knew all about it."

Antara was immediately asked to find out if ADA, as it was known, had any provision which enabled discrimination against her. From whatever was available online on ADA, it didn't seem to indicate that she was "dependent on the Class of 1995 for even leading her daily life". 

However, there seemed to be instances when its provisions had been used to harass Antara and her classmates, both at Asansol AG Church and later at Brabourne. Antara didn't want to share these details right away, without knowing at whose instigation she had been described as a "dependent", that neither did she have any liberties nor was the Class of 1995 particularly free.

The ADA information did reveal the name of Tom Foley, who had been Speaker of the House of Representatives when ADA came about in 1990. Antara's work had earlier stated that Tom Foley was always criticised for ignoring Brussels when it came to American Civil War blackmails, "so Delhi media would always remain in Delhi, because of Foley, it would never get its Brussels offices?"

ii. Why was Kolkata invoking ADA, merely to stop Antara's allusions work? Or was it specifically about Kolkata having no rivalry or competition when it came to railroad blackmails, where Kolkata had done shoddy work?

Several years ago, Antara had been advised to focus on the Wheelus Air Base/Mellaha in Libya. "After all, it was always about Wheelus and American corporations, it was not Antara's burden alone, given documentation had been held back from her."

What could Antara do about Wheelus? "What was being called ADA 1990 was only about Wheelus, to make sure no one could do railroad research while living in a country with extensive railway networks like India. Documents and livelihood would not be available so no way of leaving India, hence railroad research would stop, endless reserve currencies could be floated out of DSE."

What about Antara's allusions work till date? It was done without the assistance of the Class of 1995, Antara always did well at school, no batchmate of her would provide assistance in intellectual matters.

"These were north Kolkata families, so they'd settle in their own way."

In Delhi, when people bought apartments, they often started renovations by boarding up all windows, doors, leaving only a single entrance available. 

December 29, 2025. 

Learn about the railways, then discuss Federal Reserve, Pirosh

Robert Pirosh was a US Army infantryman during WWII, he later worked in Hollywood. 

Pirosh died on Christmas Day in 1989, when Antara's batchmates were in Class 5.

Strange, when Antara was told several months ago, "they/the Class of 1995 didn't immigrate to the United States because of you, they wouldn't leave you in India", Antara didn't believe it. She'd become unwell from the torture, she couldn't believe such things anymore.

Now NRIs were discussing, "well, we'd always have Pirosh against the Class of 1995", it was not a problem. 

Not a problem for what? Independence of the Federal Reserve, apparently, that way NRIs could altogether avoid the US Govt.

What had NRIs made of Pirosh? They had apparently found out that only when all railroad families have been exposed would the legit lease be allowed to take off. 

It was used against HT in 2012, "Don't believe the Class of 1995 if it requests that Antara continue in her job, they were all Pirosh agents."

What a strange argument, how did people share such misinformation?

Antara remembered the late 1990s, waiting at Purulia railway station to take the overnight train to Kolkata, where she studied at Brabourne, Ajit accompanying her. The train would often be late, they'd stand on the railway platform as the lights came on, discussing things.

"A long time ago, on this same platform, my father (BT) would come to see me off, take the same train as you were taking to Kolkata, I had started working by then," Ajit would say. "As the train left, I'd see from the window, BT standing there, a tall man but so alone, on the deserted platform, no one around him. It wrenched my insides, what could I do for him?"

The legit lease didn't take off when railways or railroad families stopped, it waited alone so that railways could run. 

It did so generation after generation, waiting alone.

December 28, 2025.

Captcha, captcha

Delhi had shown its aggressive stance on the Russia-Ukraine War.

Luxury hotel room prices have "skyrocketed", what would one do? Focus on the Stalinist purge at the Lux Hotel in Moscow between 1936 and 1938? 

"Lux Hotel was a blackmail used by the NRIs, there would be no NRI had there been no Lux Hotel purge."

Antara decided to focus on Stanley Lord instead, since "skyrocketing" indicated the distress flares sent out by the RMS Titanic, which were ignored by Stanley Lord, the captain of the nearest ship. She couldn't ignore the news item about the hotels, someone was reminding her of the Marriott hotel destroyed during the 9/11 attacks.

The attention turned to Batanagar, the extensive work Antara had done on Edith Foster Dulles to understand what the town was about, how Edith's ideas had influenced the way Batanagar might benefit from the 1983 Ronald Reagan-Bruno Kriesky meeting. 

(Edith's sons, John Dulles and Allen Dulles, were American honchos.)

"If you didn't write about it, Delhi would devastate Ukraine."

The above argument was correct, men with auburn-coloured hair had filled the food courts of Delhi over the weekend, Edith Foster Dulles had passed away at Auburn, though she was born in Indiana. (Batanagar had several residents whose close relations had immigrated to Indiana.)

Edith's entire life had been a parody of the legit lease, its interest in civic causes to its desire to travel across the world. "Edith encouraged indiscriminate travel, even among those who disliked other cultures and societies, what had such a harmful impact on the environment and global emissions."

If Antara and her parents got held back within India, it had been part of Edith's ideas. "We have to capture one generation of the lease family with Communism, after that there'd be no stopping Indian Communists and NRIs from taking over the world."

It was assumed that Edith Foster Dulles had deep connections in Russia, it was families like hers that set the West Point Military Academy to collect information against any imminent Holocaust against the Jews, right from the 1870s, 

"How were they raising Edith (born in 1863), with a Bengali intelligence persona?" the US Army had wondered in the 1870s. 

The above would become a defining trait of the NRIs. Most of us had seen social media posts about how NRI children always practised their Indian language script-writing at home, in neat notebooks, their parents commenting, "No matter where we stay, Indian writing was essential", presumably to teach the western countries a lesson.

ii. "What if you had become part of the NRI apparatus? In 2025, you'd have been seen as welcoming of Putin's aggression against Ukraine?" Antara was reminded.

It was a worrisome thought, Antara and her spouse had been invited to an "initiation ceremony" in their previous neighbourhood, in December 2014, a couple of months after they had moved into that residential block.

"Let's run away to Connaught Place (a shopping and business district in Delhi), we'd say other engagements had come up," the spouse had suggested. "We cannot be part of such things."

Antara did as told, hence her household survived the last four years of the Russia-Ukraine War.

"Why were you not at the 'initiation'?" those who had organised the event had called up the spouse and asked. The excuses decided upon had been used.

iii. Antara's mother-in-law didn't have it that easy. The network of Edith Foster Dulles had surrounded her home at Batanagar, she understood it was coming from the Taptapani/Hot Water relatives, she didn't know how to connect them to what was being attempted around her.

"It was about Pearl Harbour (December 1941) and the Japanese, Edith had passed away in June 1941. Was it correct to expect Supriya to solve the puzzle? Why didn't the British advise her? Supriya had been isolated over Netaji Bose in Nazi Germany, there was no excuse for Edith to bring up the Japanese and Pearl Harbour."

Since the Agency had owned up that it didn't carry out its duties since 2017, as of now, Hoover and McMaster would have to stop bothering the spouse, no matter how Batanagar relatives felt about it. 

Else, Antara would officially complain against Hoover (of Stanford University). 

December 4, 2025.

Ukraine, Chennai

Under pressure, US officials have apparently admitted to what would happen next with Ukraine.

"What Antara called Paytm or the small sums of money incentive was handled at the official levels. These officials would always remain blackmailable, given what they had done since 2018.

The humiliating Ukraine peace plan was not the first of its kind, there were endless versions of it planned by the Trump administration, one humiliating peace plan would follow another, it was just about insulting old Europe, that Europe that neither cared for ACJ nor the Class of 1995.

It was, therefore, urgent that the Federal Bureau get involved with US Govt work once again, it had hardly taken any interest in these matters since Oct 2009, it had the details of the crimes committed against Austria, the Milei administration in Argentina would be affected by such intelligence and then one would have to wait and see how Trump and his Paytm officials decided to further punish Ukraine."

November 29, 2025.