It was over

Antara had been reminded that Ajit didn't leave her bereft, that he had provided her valuable hints in the phone conversations they had in the last few days of his life, in 2010.

"Lying on the sofa, I was thinking of you."

"Why were you lying on the sofa during daytime?"

"Just like that. That time in New Delhi, in 2004, when we were going past the McDonald's outlet, and you had said it would cost us a month's earnings to eat there."

"I was wrong, it didn't cost as much, and later we ate at McDonald's, in 2008, surely you remember that?"

"Of course, that was Nehru Place, that I remember."

Antara should have remembered that earlier in 2010, in a phone call from Mumbai (the above was from Asansol), Ajit had said, "If I ever manage to go to Delhi again, I'd stay with you for a month, no more than that."

It was not enough. You would have to know Clark McAdams Clifford, born on Christmas Day, in 1906, the same year as BT was born.

Clark McAdams Clifford served four Democrat Presidents, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson and Carter. He lived till 1998.

Those like Clifford could afford the Democrat rout of 1980 and 1984 given the lease upper-hand the US Govt had from the 1950s and 1960s. (Class Act, 'Businessmen of repute?', May 18, 2026.)

There was nothing frightening about it. Antara's allusions had indicated, nay stated, that the suave and sophisticated US officials, as depicted in movies and news coverage, existed only through the Cold War, from the late 1940s to the early 1990s.

Antara had considered US officials as an 'entrapment mechanism' whose failings would have consequences across the world, within countries and societies, not merely her.

However, if Clifford, born in the same year as BT, had been thorough, then countries and societies might survive the crisis, these testing times, only Antara would be severely harmed.

It was good news. 

Except Antara, most of you who got isolated, couldn't speak freely, received negligent medical care, ought to be able to demand a better quality of life.

"The US Democrats might have wanted Antara to lead a degenerate existence, why were the rest of us suffering?"

You might say it wouldn't happen because of WWII dilemmas. Some would argue that before 2016, Antara had never encountered ferocity such as that of the US Democrats, why she could mention 'miners' and 'gallants' (Class Act, 'Because of Belarus', May 12, 2026.) 

Others might say that Clifford would have been less successful if "the British had prevailed in any part of the world after WWII, including the US."

The British apparently invented the game of cricket. 

Clifford was indicted by a grand jury in July 1992, over his involvement in the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). A year after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, you might not have to wonder where information against BT and Ajit was headed.

Anjali often said, "In these govt jobs, the wife must know as much as the husband."

Antara was surprised, Anjali knew civil engineering?

Oh no, "unofficial informal advisor", that was the profile being discussed.

What kind of an upper-hand in the lease?

Why did a lawyer identified with the Democrat side receive support from all ideologies and affiliations?

It was a post-Nazi Holocaust world for all of us, not merely the Jews. How would the lease become a "fragile hope" for the Jews but a sturdy possibility for the others? 'Businessmen of repute' from Kolkata had apparently suggested expanding on the details of the Nazi Holocaust. Since it was available to the not-Jewish people, the Jews would get isolated and lose their lease. 

Worse for Antara, she would get identified as a Navy person without realising that Clifford had served in the Navy and probably left instructions about dealing with those like Antara.

The following were Reagan's instructions to Peter Grace, in June 1982, about how to reduce inefficiency and waste in the US Govt, compared with what Antara heard through the 1980s.

"Be bold."

("Play only up to the culvert, never cross the culvert, never play beyond, don't even run there by mistake".)

"We want your team to work like tireless bloodhounds."

("Don't have to study all the time, go for a walk, go watch television, why were you always so grim, don't always sit there with your nose buried in the textbook.")

"Don't leave any stone unturned..."

("Never discuss outside what you had heard at home. Not a word. What you have heard at home stopped there.")

...in your search to root out inefficiency."

("So what if something was broken, it could be replaced or repaired, you didn't eat lunch at school, so what, it didn't matter, eat some other day.")

The US Govt grew up since the 1980s under the Grace Commission.

Antara grew up since the 1980s under the Lack of Grace Commission.

That's why it was not working.

Antara would like to sever all her connections with the US Govt.

May 20, 2026.

****

Did China discuss Iran's Montazeri, not FIFA or Montezuma?

It was well-known, by now, that certain celeb women pursued blackmails around Operation Market Garden (WWII) while Ajit kept bearing the brunt of the railroads' blackmails.

You get the point?

There were enough men with them as well, against Operation Market Garden, but it had the appearance of being an all-women initiative. These women might have missed an anecdote from Antara's schooldays.

Every once in a while, Antara would return home from school and find the residue of what seemed like a Hindu religious ritual in their (Housing) living room.

"Why, what happened here when I was at school?" Antara would ask of Anjali.

"It was your paternal grandfather's death anniversary, so your father did the annual funerary ritual (sradhho), not much in the way of 'prasad'/offering, some fruits etc, if you wanted to have it. You know how your father combined the two death anniversaries of his parents in one sraddho ritual, despite the dates being different? So we had taken out the photograph of your paternal grandmother as well."

Thus, Antara was never alerted beforehand about BT's annual funerary tradition at home. 

In which case, if Antara was to merely receive a summary of the events later, why did you hide the men who were part of attacks against Operation Market Garden from WWII?

You would point to your superstar, your second-best intelligence move in Ms Dutt, sent to Asansol AG as a teacher in early 1993. 

(The topmost intelligence move would always remain 'holding back the address', for a decade till the present day, when Antara didn't know where her closest relation resided in Mumbai.)

You would argue that Ms Dutt's 'rosette' was about the German Confederation, that Germany never seemed to be able to resolve if a strong central leadership was better suited to its purposes or if a 'ridiculous' Imperial concept, as it existed from 1870-71, was a better idea.

Your implications were obvious. If Chetla managed to take Silicon Valley along when it came to organising Germany as US military districts, then would the DoD agree to a strong military governor, which evoked comparisons with Germany of the 1930s?

Or would DoD offer a weak military leader to Germany, in which case, which individual was to be 'outed' as a weak Pentagon leader?

By 2013-14, Chetla's excitement, probably Ms Dutt's as well, had led to a situation where Indians needed to be mentored into a highly tech, digital, strongman economy. 

"We know what the DoD would finally choose, weak leadership could be hidden by savvy tech."

Was Chetla always a prophetic individual?

The problem with your second-best intelligence stratagem, aka Ms Dutt, was that she didn't follow through or even realise the implications of what was Asansol AG.

By 1993, taking Antara out of the class, "aren't you a great writer so why don't you cover the school's annual awards ceremony" was not worth the effort.

It had already been done, during one of the NS Road nieces 'First Rice' ceremony, in 1990. While everyone else celebrated, Antara sat in one of the rooms, "you just guard the gifts being deposited", Anjali had told her. 

'Write a report on the annual awards ceremony' sounded similar, didn't it?

How was it meant to be done? Ms Dutt should have given Antara her assignment in front of the entire class. The report was to be published in the school magazine, Antara's byline would be there, it was not a secret.

In the end, her classmates ended up reading it, they thought it was quite a thriller, "by the time I was in the first paragraph, I was hooked, 'students waiting under the cozy warmth of the November sun', good job Antara!"

And a byline in a school magazine? 

Antara tore out the page that had her report, threw the magazine away, "I wasn't going to carry that stupid school magazine around all my life" so if you pressed ahead with military districts of Germany, using Roy Larsen (Time Magazine), Antara would send an email that "Time Inc was no longer to be considered part of the legit lease".

Oh yes, about the online entry on Kolkata's National Library that no longer elaborated that it was the residence of British Viceroys but provided a history of the libraries of Kolkata?

The British Viceroys in Kolkata were sent by the Hanseatic League, they had information on the Baltic Sea and North Sea trade. 

The British Viceroys, at Belvedere in Alipur, were only about Germany.

Chetla was prophetic but didn't recognise Germany when it was staring at her in the face?

Antara didn't get her research job, you deceived the British, they didn't realise you regarded the lease remit as "Montezuma, not Montazeri". 

China was still explaining the Middle East to you?

May 19, 2026.

****

Businessmen of repute?

There were ways of dealing with the accusations being made and the severity of those accusations.

At Brabourne's undergraduate dorm, on the first floor, where Antara stayed around 1998, certain individuals had indicated that it was 

"at such a dorm within Brabourne (implying the Junior College Brabourne dorm of which Antara had been a resident) that Barings Bank had been vanquished because of the activities of its operatives trader Nick Leeson of the Singapore office, those that were supposed to maintain order (implying the higher defence establishments within the US) did nothing."

Barings Bank went bankrupt on February 26, 1995, Antara's Junior College classes began in August 1995.

However, two US aircrafts had come under attack in Cuba on February 24, 1996, exactly a year after Barings Bank had collapsed.

The enormity of the accusation ought to be clear now. 

It seemed Junior College Brabourne dorm had benefitted from the collapse of Barings Bank because all of them were working for Cuba, which was a den of intrigues against former European monarchies.

We needed to be careful.

The first suggestion of commercial activities in almost everyone's life was through a game of Monopoly.

It was no different for Antara.

However, Antara didn't have her own Monopoly set in childhood, say around 1984-85, she played a Bengali version of it called 'Byabshayi' or 'Businessman', at a house next door to NS Road, where her childhood friend Foochoo stayed with his four older siblings and parents.

It was not altogether accurate to say that Antara and Foochoo got to play 'Byabshayi', they were barely five-six years old, and it was a group comprising those in their mid-teens to late teens/early 20s that played, including the sibling, on a huge bed in the upper-floor of that house, for hours, through prolonged power-cuts in the evenings when oil lamps and candles were brought in. 

Antara and Foochoo either sat around watching 'Byabshayi' being played or they took playing cards to a different room and played Beating the Donkey/gadha-petapeti with each other.

Had the original version of Monopoly been played, it would have the likeness of German-born American investment banker Otto Hermann Kahn (1867-1934), who was apparently called the 'King of New York' and reorganised/consolidated the railroads. 

However, in 'Byabshayi', Otto Hermann Kahn was not depicted.

Those playing 'Byabshayi' on that large bed was what we called 'NS Road', they were part of a Bengali attempt, if it had neither the support of Otto Kahn nor the railroads, whose support did NS Road have?

It was one of the reasons the NS Road wives had been mentioned in a previous 'Class Act' blogpost (May 14, 2026). 

The elder NS Road wife was there 1985 onwards and would often quit these games halfway to get her special 'muri-makha', puffed rice, mustard oil, fried potatoes, "my specialty was the fried potatoes, which no one else added to the 'muri-makha'," she'd say.

At least it acknowledged that "those of you who had quit the legit lease had done so because of the drubbing the Democrats received, Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro, Mondale won his home state Minnesota and Washington DC, Reagan and George HW Bush took everything else".

It was not about AAP in 2015 but that Democrats had lost back-to-back, 1980 and 1984, "you have assumed a White House crisis and switched loyalties to Kolkata".

If the above was known to Indians, who had accused Brabourne Junior College dorm and higher US military for a complicated collapse as that of the Barings Bank in 1995?

It was obvious the accusing individual disliked Germans or their 20th century involvement in the two World Wars but with the focus on the Bakhmut lease, that individual also disliked the 1898 visit of Kaiser Wilhelm II to Jerusalem.

Almost every allusion pointed to a moviemaking family, apparently known for arson-related skills from the 1930s, an allegation that it needed to go past, for which it had needed a powerful marriage between a Bengali man and a supposed banking heiress in a western country.

Sir Francis Baring founded Barings Bank in 1762. His older brother John Baring was a 'silent partner'. They had decided that Sir Francis Baring would tackle the information on tropical diseases that the British East India Company collected from Asian and African countries.

John Baring would keep his focus on the activities of the Austrian Empire.

Thus, it was impossible that Barings Bank was not aware of the nitty-gritty of the lease document as it existed in the 1780s, after American independence.

Kolkata had severe problems but was still pursuing the lease politics.

May 18, 2026.

****

BT answers. (If you were at Evian-les-Bains, or part of the AAP backup team at Covasna, Romania.)

Worthies told each other, "So that was what Brabourne was like before the 'silting' action."

The worthies suspected Indian men, those that paid scant attention to the Treasury, and had complicated patience with Indian females.

As usual, the motor-boats and steamships were ignored, including within India. It was as if they didn't exist.

Why would the latter seem more likely? 

These young women were situated within a context, "the 1980s and 1990s, leading to 2001-2003". 

Suddenly taking them to the 1930s context would mean disaster for some (Antara included) and confusion and being directionless for the others.

If you drove any vehicle, including a motor-boat, you must have context and direction.

You were asking what happened to the focused academic pursuit? 

Oh, that was for the visitors, if these ever turned up, to confirm certain historical realities, which were accepted till the other day. 

Brabourne Hostel had two large adjoining Visitors' Rooms, long dark brown tables with accompanying chairs. 

Visiting hours were from 4.30 pm to 6 pm on weekdays. 

Once the visitors had left, there were enough young women who took their textbooks, notebooks, instruments down to the Visitors' Room and studied there. Large, tall windows on all sides, well-ventilated as well.

Ever flew on an aeroplane, the young woman who had mentored Antara for a while (for English Honours) had asked her.

Antara had replied she hadn't done so.

"The rivers of northern India, especially the Ganges, it looked amazing, like a narrow thread."

Those who had flown in aeroplanes would know that the rivers were not visible because of the cloud cover beneath the aircraft. 

There was no information with the females, they thought the imminent attack on American capitalism (the one on Sept 11, 2001) was responsible for it. 

Hence they took to the Visitors' Room.

No one seemed so forlorn or despondent within Brabourne Hostel?

The college offered discounts on railway travel during vacations, it was announced on the bulletin board, you had to fill in a form with the photocopy of the railway ticket, you'd be reimbursed after the vacation.

That one was beginning to look like an awfully prolonged vacation, and there was no college/institution that maintained a relationship with railroads.

Antara managed on behalf of Brabourne for a while after the 9/11 attacks, from 2001-2005. 

She bought an Indian Railways guide, memorised the names of the trains, the railways maps and routes, stations and their stoppage times. 

Without her narrative, it was her first understanding of the Nazi Holocaust imagery.

"If we visited the sibling (then in northern Karnataka), we'd have to travel through central India, Ajit might fall sick during the journey. Once we reached Mumbai CST, in the morning, we'd have to wait through the day till the late-evening/overnight Konkan Railway connecting train to northern Karnataka. 

A partially-blind old pensioner and his just grown-up university graduate daughter, sitting at Mumbai CST, through the day," Antara had told her parents.

Why the Nazi Holocaust was difficult to prevent from Purulia, India.

What was that with the toilet rolls? 

These Indians had heard of Bengalis settled in the Bay Area of California, in the 1990s, that wanted a West Bengal-based Treasury. They must have got a scare, the same girl got a mountain bicycle to the Brabourne Hostel Junior College dorm, kept it leaning against her bed, she pushed it to college in the morning, then bicycled round the Brabourne campus.

Why were we progressing in a way that seemed hostile to the West Bengal Govt?

Antara had waited for decades to "create the atmosphere" of where she grew up, her parents were not interested, her spouse didn't even know her nickname nor showed any interest in her life, colleagues were only interested in humiliating her, Delhi thought she was shy about provocative clothes.

"I come from a different place" was the reason for the blogposts, once she saw how the NRIs were using that argument within the United States.

If particular needs became apparent, software companies could devise apps out of it, for services, provisions etc. 

Antara had been left in the lurch by western Europeans, especially Germans, she might use a service provider just to discuss matters important to her. It would take a while though, that service provider couldn't be prevented from meeting her, given her previous existence was lost to her.

You've put her on a Chinese blacklist because of her opposition to Soviet KI?

Antara solved the German lease, what it meant for tech professionals etc, and how it connected to cricket and the Bombay Tournament.

What was Bombay Tournament doing in 1927 though?

Why did it have to take shelter with the British?

The US military was crowded with lease supporters, hence? After all that planning using cricket matches?

Next time, take shelter with China?

May 15, 2026.

****

Ball game, ball room, ball dance

Several girls, all Antara's batchmates, they stayed together at Brabourne Junior College dorm, in the 1990s, had admitted to trying infant food, alongside their daily meals.

It had surprised Antara, she didn't remember the taste of the ready infant food mixes available in the market.

"Oh, it was very tasty" and then they went on to describe how they sourced it, from their younger siblings, nephews or nieces, so many of them were having 'Cerelac' while enrolled at Junior College for Arts or Sciences.

At home, Antara asked Anjali if it was something she'd heard of. "What kind of talk was that, it was not meant for grown humans, in any case, you and your sibling grew up on 'Lactogen', 'Cerelac' had not been introduced in the market."

Antara began to research, she noticed a variety of 'Cerelac' packets at NS Road, her nieces were quite young, she asked the NS Road wives, they tended to prefer 'apple flavour' but when Antara noted down the names of the other 'Cerelac' flavours at the chemists', she found the recipes were getting complicated, there were 'apples with bananas and some oats powder'. 

Yet NS Road was correct, most of the customers asked for 'apple', till Antara had to intervene, "Don't the salty ones sell at all?" 

"It was weird," she was told, "why introduce salt at such a young age?"

Thus, beyond Brabourne Junior College dorm, there seemed to be lurking an unknown group that knew about 'apples' and 'saltair'. Could it be the beginning of solving the mystery around Antara's childhood?

Why had you assumed it would be about who had mentored Antara? The names of the mentors had been circulated in 2021. 

What else was needed, lies, deceit, spinmeistering? 

From the BTV sorts? 

The ones who decided the admission procedure for Brabourne Junior College, "best of five", then everyone would assume European backing. There were no Europeans in the list that was circulated.

Even the list of adversaries was known within Brabourne Junior College dorm. 

A statistician, a physicist with an institute named after him in India, a huge group of unnamed Soviets.

However, that Europeans were to be somehow pointed out and accused was clear within Brabourne Junior College dorm. 

A wealthy student from a neighbouring SAARC country used toilet rolls. A feisty girl--her dorm bed was one apart from Antara--had screamed, "Did you see that Antara? Did you? What was the Bengali term for a toilet roll? It didn't exist, we have to invent it, let's call it 'hagoj'."

It often got tense inside the Brabourne Junior College dorm, like that.

You shouldn't worry about railroad interests within Brabourne Junior College dorm. There was stratification, those who used Howrah Station as well as its faster, expensive trains were the elite. 

However, there were others who needed flights, the ones from the Sunderbans needed boats for reaching home.

Just conversation starters, if you knew that the guy who managed the motor-boats in the Sunderbans was called the 'sareng', they accepted the likes of Antara, Treasury didn't become an intimidating factor.

But it was a secluded zone, you were right about it, somewhat like a cruise ship, and given U-Boat agents, German but not U-Boat agents and Turkish-Sudan were making plans for the future, one cruise ship could not be a threat, it was an exaggeration. 

Then leave apart those from Turkish-Sudan, why did you take the other dorm girls to the US?

"I woke up daily at 4.30 am, I turned on my light, the one above my bed, it was the only light in the dorm, the rest of you were sleeping, I ended up identifying that one Agency honcho could cause another Holocaust."

Should Antara believe the above?

Or should Antara tell her, 

"No, you've got it wrong, it was a World Cup cricket match between India and Sri Lanka, from 1996, India was losing to Sri Lanka, the Kolkata crowd went berserk that it was a 'got-up game', Brabourne (watching the TV in the hostel dining room) was overjoyed that Kolkata had protested, but at college the next day, north Kolkata showed its displeasure at Kolkata, 'That's no way to behave, merely because you were losing, where was the sporting spirit?'"

You wanted to discuss the 'sport' with Antara?

Antara had wanted to research the Nazi Holocaust, in different ways, we all wanted the exact same thing?

Thus, Antara was never a factor in any of the above. Kolkata protested a got-up game, India lost and all her Brabourne batchmates were chosen for US assignments.

Something else was showing within that extra ballroom in the premises.

No, we were not discussing operatives of elite Washington DC establishments.

More Mumbai Chowpatty.

And Mumbai socialites.

Yes!! Monaco!!!

Monaco-r mojadar bhelki!!

'An entertaining miracle from Monaco', the torture-surveillance being the entertainment.

Noida was upset that despite her performing stretches on the dorm bed at Brabourne Junior College, where were the joint exercises, oh, where were they?

Antara could add, "Was Monaco-ji preventing them?"

May 14, 2026.

****

A war comes to an end

 Antara had no idea that Indians felt so strongly about Coca Cola.

There were storms everywhere!

Antara never had soft drinks in her childhood.

"Why must you always be weird," Anjali would tell her, "Look at the rest of them gulping down their Gold Spots and Limcas."

There were two, maybe three occasions when a soft drink (in a glass bottle) was bought for Antara, with a plastic straw pipe to drink with. In all instances, Antara had a sip, then went looking for Anjali to return it to her.

Thus, Antara had no fascination for soft drinks till 2021, once the pandemic was over. 

Could you relate to such a person?

Then the tales about who was Asa Griggs and whether his son travelled to China as a magician and whether there were 'magic tricks' performed at home and who reshaped 'candles' to forge a new identity and whether Supriya Paul stared at a 'candle' through a thunderstorm were irrelevant.

Antara didn't need soft drinks, she wouldn't discuss them.

As with soft drinks, people in India believed that western militaries preferred coeducational institutions to share Bureau information.

Antara studied at a school that had boys in the primary classes. Except one or two of them, she barely spoke with the others, they were so rough and rowdy. 

When Antara opted for Brabourne for undergraduate studies (despite the option of studying at co-ed colleges in Kolkata and Purulia), the Purulia townspeople had been surprised, they had told the sibling, "She prefers women's colleges?"

Antara never understood people who were filled with wrong information, presumptions, did they not know Antara at all?

In 1995, during Brabourne Junior College, the college was hosting its annual fest, it was probably called 'Kaleidoscope' for shattered glass, 'kaleidoscope' was probably the sibling's favourite scientific instrument as well. 

Antara was entering the college on fest day, when she saw the western part of the campus filled with young men, she was by herself, they seemed aggressive and turned to look at her.

Antara had fled towards the opposite side, surely it implied that if you studied at a co-ed college, all you'd get were agents of the German U-Boats who destroyed Britain's trading ships in the Western Approaches during the World Wars.

There were no all-women universities, Antara had thought to herself.

Was it a good thing, what happened at Jadavpur University, between 2000 and 2002, remembered only for the 9/11 attacks?

Who was to say U-Boat agents against Western Approaches were not at Jadavpur? 

Did we know if the 9/11 attacks were also against Britain or not?

Of course, given the somewhat dubious quality prevalent in the Indian newsrooms, Antara didn't realise that western 'economists' had introduced the 'sizar' system within the newsrooms.

Antara was treated well within the Kolkata reporting office because of the political ideology of the bosses. On the day she had joined, the office manager had shown her to the workstation and told her, "pens, notepads, staplers etc" were being sent her way. 

By the time Antara entered a New Delhi newsroom, she was immediately demoted several ranks, given she had studied journalism with a fee waiver. She was supposed to serve her colleagues, fetch their food and drinks and printouts. How was Antara 'sizar' compared to them, neither had they attended ACJ nor any other journalism school? 

"What you have studied, your work experience, what stories you have done, nothing mattered in this newsroom...", Antara was told.

So it was a 'sizar' newsroom. It had only waited for Antara. When Antara resigned in 2010, its purpose was over. 

Maybe Asa Griggs Candler could see us through such a bizarre crisis?

No?

Countries that stayed away from WWII, fought their own Civil War and tired themselves out, stayed huddled with a former Kaiser and an abdicated monarch would come to the rescue?

Former Kaiser+abdicated monarch+country where they threw chicken bones on the floor=/equals famous soft drink.

It didn't sound impressive, you know, one could survive without soft drinks and abdicated monarchs.

No, of course you were not done.

You were a railway company, then you were that railway company hidden in Myanmar, then you were in Washington DC trying to ruin all other railroad interests in the world.

There you were, swollen with sleep, climbing down from the upper berth, "They were announcing another train, what if it hit us from behind?"

Do not worry. The train behind you wouldn't hit you at all. 

From 2021 onwards, it took a while to catch up with the monstrosity of what Antara had lived through, the 1980s, the 1990s, the noughts.

What an outrageous trap, a set-up, there were aunts visiting, asking after the family deity/Narayan Shila aka Damodar Chandra, you'd try to solve it in terms of Infosys or some celebrity. 

Would you realise that the aunts and Anjali were discussing a rock band, called 'Sly and the Family Stone'? It was apparently the 'deity', a group of rock musicians familiar with Franco's Spain?

What did those like 'Sly and the Family Stone' apparently believe? It was vicious abuse of the Austrian Habsburgs, that Austria was merely a part of the Ottoman Empire, you had to create the pressure before Austrians admitted to their Islamic cuisine and culture, no amount of pressure was enough when it came to the Austrians, that Austrians had emigrated from Sudan in Africa.

Then why get so furious and stormy, if every one of us was from Sudan?

You didn't even know what was so-and-so party?

For that party, personal computers had to be introduced, the extremely high cost of infotech borne by corporations across the world. Else, centralised computers could have managed these tasks, how exactly do we use the personal processor provided to us? We didn't, hence.

All of you had vaults at top banks to store your RMS Titanic information?

If you had stopped shuddering, the Mykolaiv family was not that different from the Asansol one. 

The Mykolaiv family's narratives about itself were elaborate and untrue.

May 13, 2026.

****

Because of Belarus

Where was Antara disliked by a greater number of people, in Asansol or Purulia?

Right now, Purulia was apparently winning when it came to its dislike for Antara.

"It was nothing but penance for how Purulia had behaved when it came to the Sapphire matter and Coca Cola. Back in the late 1990s, Purulia was offering huge discounts on Coca Cola bottles, Ajit kept having these for weeks when he went for his evening walks, he ended up with an upset stomach. Anjali might have suspected that Ajit became careful about Turkish-Sudan following the incident."

Ajit was frequently harassed within Purulia in those years he spent there after his retirement. He used to dye his hair, when the gloss went away after a few days, it turned reddish, young boys would run after his scooter, "Look at his hair, either his head was on fire or he has put red mahdi on it." (Mahdists was also a Turkish-Sudan reference, this was around 2003-04.)

It shouldn't mean Antara would have to pay the price for such information. She researched on her own, if it yielded Turkish-Sudan information, she used it, she didn't use the information from Purulia that Ajit had with him.

And why did Purulia want to know whether Antara was aware if the Vanderbilts financed the Adolf Hitler Schulen (Adolf Hitler Schools) in Nazi Germany? The Vanderbilt side had blocked Antara's email id. In any case, Antara couldn't ask them whether they paid illicit donations to the Nazis or not. 

There was an interesting comic story from Bengal, a man had been punished by the local king, he had been asked to spend the night atop a tall metal pole, called 'shool' in Bengali. He somehow survived the night, only to find out it was unacceptable as punishment, he had cheated, there was a small fire burning at the base of the pole, it kept him warm through the winter's night, provided hope and optimism. So there'd be a repeat of the punishment. 

Maybe the Vanderbilt sum (if true) was negligible, why depend on them for your economic recovery?

The former POTUSes were apparently seeking the protection of their favourite Chicago law firms when it came to what they had done to Britain. The way to deal with the situation was to use the British intelligence side of it, thereby avoiding the Chicago legal community. 

How would you accuse the Chicago law firms? 

That they provided full legal coverage to men and women of Antara's generation that wanted to visit American cities? That it had been suggested around 1988 by one of Antara's classmates, who had bought a Miner's Safety Lamp to class? Later, they had read poems about 'gallants'? We had to accept the fact that the former POTUSes had made extraordinary legal arrangements for Indian men and women in the US, surely there was a requirement for such legal coverage?

A 'sizar' was an undergraduate at Irish or British educational institutions who either paid lower fees or got assistance for meals and lodging. Around 1993, when Antara was in Class 9, a senior girl (Class 10) had come up to her and asked, "Have a (pair of) scissors?" 

"I've got Julius Caesar," Antara had said, pointing at what she was reading. They had both laughed, and the girl went away. 

Antara didn't get lodging or meals assistance at ACJ but she got fees waiver, so "go get a 'sizar' and see what kind of Communism erupted across the world" was advice that had come from within Asansol AG Church.

All of us would wonder that what began so well--Purulia's understanding of the dangers of Turkish-Sudan or an Asansol AG girl's suggestion to use a 'sizar'--seemed to have led nowhere, except uncontrolled frenzy. 

Apparently, it was because no one really understood Anjali, how she had been mentored and from where, what happened if you were born five months before the July 20 1944 Adolf Hitler assassination plot, and if the consequences were a spate of 'suicides' of the conspirators, what did it imply for the so-called 'upper-strata' of the US Navy?

Did it make those 'conspirators' supporters of the Allies? Were they good people? Should we take their 'opposition' to Hitler for granted? Why didn't they oppose Hitler in March 1942, when most of European Jewry were still around?

You want to rush to HT and ACJ for help? Did you have any idea how much they feared Antara because of July 20 1944 and its consequences?

"Hmm, Sethi has joined, just a year senior to us at ACJ, earning Rs 80,000 per month at HT" was one of the first things Antara heard from a former ACJ batchmate when she joined HT.

Sethi, his 80,000 and dense, dark stormy skies was all there was to it, what further help could HT provide?

In constantly accessing HT and ACJ for information against Antara, you destroyed the networks, in Asansol and Purulia and elsewhere, what helped people lead their lives, undisturbed by Communism.

You called CPM Communist, you called TMC even more Communist than CPM, you don't even know how to describe the BJP. If you didn't know what you wanted, who could help you?

How did Antara manage hundreds of desks, in India? It was about paying attention to the economy and polity of the 1980s and 1990s, so one could understand which one was the illicit economy. Of course, even illicit economy Antara had to understand, so it was about finding what one needed to learn.

Because of Belarus, Antara stayed away from social media since 2015, which considerably helped.

You were NOT going to use Spain and Fleece for the land corridor. BJP or INC or other political formations was not an excuse.

May 12, 2026

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