Commerce raider or Commerce rocket?

1. Why did Dsa think that Ajit-Anjali wouldn't have much to say once the crisis got more engaging?

The same story. They sacrificed their aspirations, in the early 1960s, so that Austria (the country) would be safe. As became obvious over the last decades, Antara was not secure against her tormentors at all.

2. Interesting. You think they lost the trail, how far it went?

No, it was a combination of assurances. The British helped navigate shallow waters only when the entire family was together. As was obvious, Antara was not considered part of the family, it was making the local citizenry furious, these discussions of Antara being isolated, so she'd rather not share the details of the paperwork collected etc.

3. Did Ajit-Anjali willingly collect the paperwork?

Oh, around 1995, they hadn't understood what was going on. Ajit-Anjali had endless visitors at their Housing flat, colleagues, neighbours, relatives. 

If there was an unusual late-evening visit after Antara's ICSE exam results were published, from the Dakshineshwar sorts, they didn't realise it was a 'doctor', that the Dakshineshwar sorts were replacing the 'doctors' as the British Houses were being sold. 

Consider how low Ajit must have fallen, merely an individual fearful of medications and Big Pharma (CLASS ACT, 'Britain, then Norway', June 8, 2026)

4. What did that late-evening visit in May 1995 indicate, from the suddenly turned 'doctor'?

The visit hinted that you have been 'outed' (scoring 80 in Bengali Language and Literature) because there was someone in Antara's class through the previous decade who was claiming she was closer to BT than Ajit and his daughters. 

That individual returned to India from the US in 2014, was in charge of supposed 'legit lease' aspirations, apparently advised the Palace.

5. How did she become so knowledgeable on BT? Russian emigres? Navy personnel? Pray tell.

Those Navy-infiltration stories were for wannabes. Every place infiltrated to the high heavens, apocalyptic fears. Those that posited themselves to be closer to BT had sent forward classmates to the United States, settled in the Rutgers campus etc, but originally from Purulia town. That, however, was merely the decoy.

The information on BT came through the postal system, guess who sent it? For which US Presidential terms?  

The best thing was, it was a BT profile without any reference to Ukraine. Also, it considered Anjali and Antara as fallen out of favour with Ajit, the divorced side, hence ineligible for anything.

6. So some individual getting classified information that avoided the harsh global realities was the plan of tomorrow.

If tomorrow came, it would have come via the Great Game but given what happened to Le Bulldozer, one had to be cautious (CLASS ACT, 'Britain, then Norway', June 8, 2026).

7. What did they want from Antara?

Ajit thought it was about Cham, Switzerland (of the condensed milk fame) they were after, he referred to the skin as 'cham' (ch as in 'chair'), "till they've got the skin"/'cham chhariye nebe'.

Anjali thought it was about the November 2000 US presidential elections, "Cham re chirkutti/Tokey ki ami niyechhi", 'Hey hanging chad fellas backed by Cham, Switzerland, did I choose you?'

June 9, 2026.

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Britain, then Norway

 1. You were not 'cushing' the Paul as much as he needed. First S Paul whatever in the emails, now Germans ran SIFE in the 1950s. What was it, a 'returning champion' tactic?

All of Antara's setbacks, reversals, insults, scores being lowered on exam score-cards, physical attacks, had originated from West Bengal.

2. Don't go there if the violence was spilling over.

They react in weird ways. So it was one Maggi quiz contest. To have a genre called DIY? Dalhousie Institute didn't consider it excessive?

3. You cared about those places?

Antara liked to keep in mind where the Communists gathered.

4. And back in the day, the Chetlas and Chinsurahs wouldn't have known about it.

They were giving the men their 'space' to do their thing etc.

5. How did it become a male thing, quizzing?

It was not a male thing. The spouse considered it 'trivia-gathering', went against him was what Antara understood.

6. And the sibling?

She misses lots of things, not reliable when it came to Kolkata and its intrigues.

Tell me, why should anyone threaten with Rewa? We were not making overtures to the Rewa people. Why shouldn't Antara have the right to mention Rewa in a blog? (Class Act, 'Ucha hain dariya mein jhanda hamara', May 25, 2026.)

7. What did they do?

Officials often have French counterparts. Antara had missed the Salat-Baroux sorts. The toolkit matter needed solving, it could lead to pogroms against Jews, how else would one define Oct 7 2023? Then it would become Antara's responsibility.

8. So Dsa got Salat-Baroux involved?

Looked like it. That visit to the forestry reserve in Orissa in May 1990, about Rewa? Just before they had come across the 'white tiger', there was an elephant calf being shown around, tourists were patting its head, Antara didn't, then it opened its mouth, Antara had a few chocolates in her handbag (Cadbury Eclairs), but she didn't want to touch the moist mouth and tongue of the elephant calf.

9. Then?

The 'mahout' took the chocolates and fed it to the calf, "So scared? Look how easy it was". Antara had laughed to herself, "Like I wanted to go around covered in elephant saliva".

10, Tete de veau was 'calf's head'.

Which we didn't pat.

11. But France fell (WWII), Norway had fought.

Tell me about it.

12. Were trying to buy that country?

What else could it be?

13. You don't think Ajit actually hated doctors, did you? He might have disliked medicines, Big Pharma, how was it possible?

He was on the railroad when it happened, from 1995 to 2007, how Britain was lost. It was July 1995, rain clouds hanging low. They were coming back from Kolkata, having 'purchased forms' for admission to Junior College Brabourne. Antara was torn up inside, Ajit seemed extremely distraught. "Was he upset about buying the forms, did he not want me to study in Kolkata?"

14. They bought the Houses, not the intelligence services.

He was called Le Bulldozer, for his ambition. Ajit had once referred to a bulldozer driver in Asansol, "Such a mighty machinery, the one driving the bulldozer ate a four-legged grass-fed herbivore every day."

June 8, 2026.

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They ran away for Maths. They stayed close to each other for Maths.

 1. Was Antara aware that the mathematics syllabus in India was caught in a legit lease/Prof Hardy/Indian mathematician blackmail?

No. Antara had been told, "If you struggle with progression, don't even think of calculus".

It implied that if you struggled on Indian topics, you'd never be able to make inroads into Brussels. 

It was possible everyone was not aware that Brussels would become an Open City, citta aperta, these were complicated matters.

2. Apparently, India had lacked sufficient financial weight for advanced mathematics.

It would be Antara's turn to be taken aback. Really? What about the private tutors? What about the millions of coaching centres? What about the online tutorials? Were they based in India or were they operating from Mars?

In the end, Indian students solved mathematical problems like a whirlwind in a desert, as American students and Antara gaped in wonder. 

Antara was recently told that the 'amazing acumen' in Mathematics was coming from NATO military ops, both during the Cold War and thereafter, that NATO generals supplied these coaching centres.

Just consider where it would leave Antara, if Batanagar and CR Park both used NATO for Mathematics coaching purposes.

3. Hmm. So it was unlikely, they might have been duped, what extra financial strength did NATO military ops have, apart from usual allocation? What about railroads, would Antara be able to work them into the situation?

Antara used the railway cafetaria in Asansol, when she was a postgrad student at Jadavpur, during 2001-2002. She took the Toofan Express from Howrah at 9.40 am, the one that went straight to the border (Sriganganagar), travelled on the ladies' compartment, reached Asansol at 1.40 pm. 

Then she'd race past the milling crowd at the railway station, to reach the Indian Railways cafetaria, she had a veg thali for lunch.

Usually, the cafetaria would be empty except for some upcountry men eating similar thalis, the younger Indian men usually ordered sandwiches and omelettes.

The waiters never let Antara reach the counter, to collect cutlery or tissues, they'd indicate to her to remain seated, they'd fetch it for her.

Antara's connecting train to Purulia was at 2.55 pm, so by 2.30 pm, Antara would have purchased her ticket and reached the platform (Platform No 1) to board the train. She reached Purulia around 6 pm, a day spent in travel.

4. Interesting about the railway cafetaria. You think the railroad intelligence networks later got taken over, were now within NATO?

Several years later, it had been hinted to Antara that often, next to her, a single mother would eat, with her bairns sitting atop the table. It was untrue, there were no bairns sitting on any of the tables in that railway cafetaria. 

If Chetla and Supriya were implied, how did they win the loyalty of these bairns?

What did they know of the Vietnam War and Casey Sr, was it used to divert the car towards Dakshineshwar in Nov 2007? (CLASS ACT, 'Nov 2007 was such a big deal', June 4, 2026)

5. What did they serve for veg thali at the railway cafetaria?

Usually, they'd serve rice, dal and soyabean curry. 

Antara, however, knew Supriya's cooking techniques, she used granular soya, called it "nutrela keema", turned it into fritters, which she called "keema chop".

So Morgan in Ukraine had taken the car towards Dakshineshwar in Nov 2007.

6. If you removed Supriya, it left Chetla with the bairns seated atop the table?

It seemed that way, Chetla as a powerful presence within NATO.

June 5, 2026.

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"Nov 2007 was such a big deal"

 1. Would Antara feel a tinge of regret if she found out that Science students in India were mentored by the Austrians?

No. Antara wouldn't feel any regret. Antara disliked hilly areas, they were difficult to manage, she had written to the Austrians and told them so. She'd be happy that she studied the Arts.

2. Did Antara consider Science students servile to Disney or even to the White House?

No, Antara liked Science students. But their pursuit of the Sciences was often difficult to distinguish from immigration, their concern for funding often sounded like illicit wealth. The Soviet KI-ness of Science was difficult to ignore.

3. In the Arts/Humanities, did Antara prefer to be a scholar? Did Antara's parents' apathy towards her career choices make her angry towards them?

Antara had wanted to earn a living as quickly as possible but in a profession that paved the way for learning as well. Journalism fit the description better than school-teaching.

Antara had noticed that her parents didn't offer any help, she thought they were tired and old, it didn't occur to her that they were deliberately leaving her to her own.

4. Why had Antara never considered writing to Austrian-origin people in the United States for a journalism job?

Antara liked staying in India. She didn't want to be a journalist in the US. One's own milieu, forgotten people and events, "local sights and smells" as they said kept her where she was. Nor was she afraid of corporates, they published newspapers/magazines, they had a right to be involved, anyone that had a problem could work elsewhere, or start one's business. 

Antara researched the Bijon Setu in Kolkata incident (early 1980s) after learning her narrative in 2018. Few newspapers might have wanted to focus on it, given the incident took place under a Communist rule.

Had Antara taken a job in the American media, she'd have been limited to topics considered relevant for her. Worse, she would be close to colleagues who wrote on legit lease matters in terms of talking to the Russian envoy in Washington DC, without informing Trump or Pence.

5. Why was it "such a big deal", talking to the Russian envoy in Washington DC?

Antara's uncle (the spouse of the third sister, Anjali being the youngest of four girls) was an agricultural scientist, he had worked at rice research, then banana cultivation and research, retiring to a town where the biggest sweetmeat was called 'rabonbhog', apparently after the Russian Rabinowitzes. 

Of course hell would break loose if you discussed the Russian Jews, from Siberia, Antara was surprised why it quietened down all of a sudden.

6. How did we know they were not discussing the Berlin 1945 WWII controversy?

The discussion with the Russian envoy seemed to have been about Ajit-Anjali. The allusions had stated that "Ajit and Anjali didn't have a war in common" so it couldn't be about WWII.

7. What did that mean?

Antara was allotted one of the best rooms of Brabourne Hostel for BA 3rd year, she had done well in her exams etc. 

It was a single-seater, she stayed alone, on her study desk lay a critical study of The Grave Digger's Speech, that neighbourhood had indicated "they were willing to understand the lease in terms of Lenin and the Nazi Holocaust."

Yet eight years later, when Antara went on a reporting assignment about an industrial development in Bengal's villages, the city of Kolkata erupted in a one-day intifada, Antara couldn't enter the city late at night except via Dakshineshwar.

Where was the Grave Digger aka Ajit?

Where was the neighbourhood of Brabourne?

Where were all of them when, past midnight, the car entered Dakshineshwar, for a two-hour drive towards Jadavpur?

June 4, 2026.

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No 'niche' magazine on healthcare, software; Antara was "not capable" of writing her UPSC; Fed's interest rates

Antara wrote her UPSC/Civil Services exams in 2004.

She wrote her Prelims (the first part of the exam) in May 2004, cleared it in August, wrote her Mains (the second part of the exam) in October -November 2004. 

However, by March 2005, she didn't get the UPSC interview call. (Antara's first preference had been Foreign Service, her second preference was IAS/bureaucracy.)

Antara was not aware that Ms Dutt was responsible for the railroad aspirations of certain groups of people, the desire to take over the manors and estates and finances of railroad owners in the US.

Nor was Antara aware that since she left high school (Asansol AG), Ms Dutt had spent a considerable time "keeping the White House in Washington DC in instability situations" while the POTUS stayed safe, secure.

"No one can get past Lane Technical or Asansol Girls' College, so in the end, the GOP would take the blame for everything, the reversals in monetary policy, all harm to human existence," Ms Dutt had apparently said.

It was the reason she was willing to gamble, take a chance with the Trumps, who'd know it was Ms Dutt who had thought it up?

After Antara's UPSC (2004), it was Ms Dutt's idea to purchase a San Francisco-based investment firm, for global diplomats, it would hire as many retired intelligence chiefs as possible, so that the 'allusions' situation was always loaded against Antara and those that Ms Dutt disliked.

The firm was renamed in 2009 and as it started its journey, Antara's life began to fall apart, her parents passed away in 2009-2010, then HT.

Ms Dutt's San Francisco-based investment firm offered commercial services, software and healthcare technology. 

Several of Antara's younger relatives, on both sides, recently joined the healthcare technology sector, and thereby came under Ms Dutt's control. They'd have to say that "Antara was not capable of writing the UPSC exam", if they wanted to stay on the good side of Chetla and Ms Dutt.

Those in the media business would have to find a way to make sure their news magazines didn't become niche in the 'healthcare' or 'software' categories. The 'design' integration could either be reversed or sorted out in the way the management considered, if we were to avoid Ms Dutt's expanding control of our lives.

June 3, 2026.

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Took Antara's parents to Canada?

Antara was not going to write on the topic she was asked to, "We all have our own Jeremies".

Antara was not trying to understand the world that emerged after she wrote on cricketer Polly Umrigar (Class Act, 'An impromptu discussion of Jordan...Antara couldn't afford Taj Hotels', April 16, 2026). 

'Polly-put-the-kettle-on' was one of the better memories she had of school, what was the problem in recounting it?

Antara had worked at newsrooms where cricket historians (and their close relations) were columnists, she had often communicated with them, even interviewed them in New Delhi's hotels, she was not trying to usurp their positions, the blog was about her life, not about cricket, what would go wrong if she mentioned cricket once in a while?

The sibling had told her, in the 1980s, that Asansol AG Church had elaborate cricketing apparatus, "the entire set, from wickets to the regulation-weight batting equipment, as well as the cricketing gear the players needed to wear but it was never taken out."

It turned out to be true, in the little more than a decade that Antara studied at Asansol AG, she never saw any cricket gear leave the store-room.

Antara never played cricket, she disliked bowling, because of the run-up, both spin and pace, was it always intended that she'd be flung in the middle of things? 

She had tried picking up the batting gear, one could manage those meant for the small boys but the actual batting equipment had proved too heavy for her, she wasn't physically sturdy enough.

Thus, if Abanindranath had wanted Antara to be an 'appurtenance', something subordinate to a bigger entity, if he had wanted so from 1857-1858, it could not be relevant to Antara the individual, who had proven herself useful and popular in categories applicable to individuals. 

Antara had helped others when necessary, she had been part of a larger society.

Abanindranath's ideas of what was bigger, what was an accessory, were best not considered, given the hundreds of millions of people who had died in the 20th century to preserve a world order.

Antara didn't want to 'discuss the Jeremies' because she didn't know whether Jeremy was close to Abanindranath, but was that a way to treat people?

Brabourne Hostel had a room on the second floor, beneath the stairs, apart and separate from the rooms along the corridor, it was supposedly haunted.

Chand-ki-beti chand-ki-beti took that room, convincing the Alamo Girl who had warned her against taking it.

"Alamo Girl," she had said, "It was the wind that shook the door at night, it rattled on its hinges, I've stayed in that room, no former Brabourne student had died there as the gossip claimed. As the door shook through the night, it seemed that someone was persistently knocking."

Introduce the concept of Lavasa through the unused cricketing gear of Asansol AG. It implied Navassa Island on the Caribbean Sea.

Introduce the concept of Windward Passage using the Brabourne hostel room. The Caribbean island of Navassa was located in the Windward Passage.

Next take Antara to a Kolkata female getting married, 2000-2001, that girl would move to Hong Kong and later to Canada, her mother kept shouting, "My son-in-law/jamai was the best." Navassa Island was to the east of Jamaica.

Antara tried to draw a diagram. She got Bangladesh (east of Kolkata), Canada of 'Friends' sitcom and Navassa Island, an island disputed between the US and Haiti.

If the Abanindranath loyalists in Bangladesh wanted Navassa Island, why did it prevent Antara from earning a living, why was it tormenting for everyone?

Because the last episode of any discussion of German intelligence was the cricketers, it could be used for 'Austrian severance'? (Class Act, 'Antara didn't want any emails from Austria', June 1, 2026)

June 2, 2026.

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Antara didn't want any emails from Austria

Most of the problems arose through June 1, 2026, because of severance pressures from Austria.

"It was impossible that women of a certain country would want anything except that."

The US would have to know that 

i. The blackmail that would be invoked was about Austrian Chancellor Ernst Streeruwitz (1874-1952).

ii. All attacks on Ajit over the last decade would be used together by the Global Communists.

iii. Ajit had enacted the 'Austrian severance' through a letter he wrote to Anjali in the early 1970s. 

Antara had come across that letter in 2006, when her parents were shifting homes, she had not known that Ajit had a nickname for Anjali he didn't otherwise use, calling her 'my joo' (not Anju, which he used in front of others).

iv. Ajit's letter was highly passionate, he had written, "My Joo, my very own Joo, what was coming between us, these lengthy stays of yours in Asansol, any chance to go away to your own relations, what have I done wrong, what could I do to keep you with me...and if I visited you at NS Road, it was like you couldn't recognise me, so cold, so distant, hurriedly moving away, why, my Joo, why?"

v. Antara didn't want to receive any letter or email from Austria that called her "a Jew", or described her as "cold and distant", or identified Austrian assets within HT that Antara could get in touch with for her purposes.

Antara knew/worked with only three departments within HT--design, colour-correction and pre-press--and while they were heavily-staffed, at least 30-35 men working there, they wouldn't be pleased if Antara was further humiliated, 14 years after leaving HT, by those that read about WWI in the newspapers.

June 1, 2026.

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