Ukraine on their minds

The discussion of shopkeepers across West Bengal, gathered in some kind of informal trade union, under Bengali businessmen of Kolkata, did not go down well. (The information was shared over an email.)

Bengali shopkeepers seemed hesitant, anxious till 2012, Anjali would often say, "Look at how they conduct their business, they start the day by carrying most of their capital on them."

It was true, even before a single sale, they were loaded with wads of cash, they had got whatever they had. 

Later, Antara had thought it was about WWII blackmails (financiers and the fiercest fighting in the 'pockets') but then she remembered seeing the cash kept under plastic sheets as well, on which the shopkeepers were often seated, so not WWII.

"Don't they keep their money in banks?" Antara had asked Anjali.

"Did they look like they had the courage to interact with banks?" Anjali had replied.

The socialist directions of State policy suggested 'last mile banking' as a desired objective, and socialism was far more embedded in the national psyche than merely the Preamble to the Indian Constitution.

The desire to score easy points often got the better of certain individuals.

If the focus of G7 was to force Austrians to own up to the intrigues of the Stamp Act of 1765, then Austrians deserved to know the following.

There was an allusion involving Antara's participation in a short story contest, around 2013-14, Antara's short story did well but someone called Mehsuda won, but the allusion was not enough to be considered seriously.  

If there were intrigues at all, let Bengali businessmen take responsibility for Stamp Act 1765, they wanted the British to let go of the American colonies, they were desirous that the United States become a capitalist nation, setting up banks and financial institutions, even organise HIB visas so that Bengalis who desired banking services could immigrate to the US. 

Antara didn't desire any proximity to Stamp Act 1765.

For one, Antara had paid too high a price to stay away from Stamp Act 1765. 

Ajit obsessed with the Tennessee Valley Authority, established in 1933, important political careers began that year as well, he might not have wanted to connect those political careers to the Tennessee Valley Authority. 

Antara got married at a Hindu temple situated near a hydroelectric dam, she knew how Tennessee Valley Authority went about its ways. 

And if she remained loyal to her own life, she wouldn't have to worry about which railroad launched Nye Committee/Investigation of Munitions Industry (mid-1930s), or if it blamed the Morgans or Duponts for war-profiteering, "We don't know such things, we didn't use banking facilities in the US and given the Tennessee Valley Authority etc."

Despite the above, in the year 2000, a Bengali male academic from the US turned up at Jadavpur for a seminar. He taught at Boulder, Colorado. 

Boulder meant stone. 

Colorado or 'Partido Colorado' meant Red Party, a conservative political party founded in Paraguay on Sept 11, 1887. 

The Bengali from Boulder, Colorado took an inordinate interest in the spouse, then a university student, wanted the latter to immigrate to Colorado for a teaching job. 

(Supriya had said "she couldn't afford it".)

'Partido Colorado' was the only legal party in Paraguay between 1947 and 1962. It controlled the presidency since 1948, except for an interruption between 2008 and 2013, when Antara was working as a journalist in Delhi newsrooms.

There were British-educated surgeons in Asansol who ate nothing but 'para'/peda (a sweet) for dinner.

"What happened, Britain, forgot to share all that Paraguay intelligence with Antara? Decided to try torture instead? At some point, Agency would take the blame for the torture? The dazzle of Digital Humanities made HUMINT look less? Paint Brush Girl had to take the fall? 

Or did you not realise that the Treasury didn't do banking in the US, that Antara was free both of American independence blackmails as well as the 1958 Mutual Defence Agreement?

Baranagar and Alipur beckoned, so Ukraine collapsed all over again?"

Now what was a capable military tribunal? One that could explain the intriguing behaviour of the officials of British intelligence?

June 15, 2026.

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Mamdani shouldn't become the approach to Norway

 "The following could be treated as a 'guest blogpost', since Antara was not sure whether to agree with it or not.

If Defense Intelligence was being challenged that several of the 'personae' doing the rounds, including Chetla's, were created by Jewish individuals and later sold to the Global South, the situation needed to be understood as it unfolded.

As they were moving from Bankura to Asansol in early 1984, Ajit-Anjali were offered packed lunch by a neighbour. They had decided to travel by road to Asansol, on the truck carrying the furniture, not use an automobile. Their packed lunch consisted of parathas, the neighbour was a Bengali Muslim, the dough had been kneaded with eggs.

Thus, belonging to a famed, exalted House made one eligible for a 'persona', a distinction probably available to Ajit-Anjali but not to Antara. However, Antara didn't have the papers of being an 'adopted child' either, Chetla would furnish these papers if they were demanded of her. 

Thus, the supposed biological child growing up in faraway Kolkata had been entrusted with the adoption papers of the 'adopted child', such was the level of mismanagement. It was obvious Chetla would use it as a weapon to hurt Antara.

Through the journey, Antara sat on Anjali's lap, not on the seat of the truck, from Brown House-empowered Kolkata, expect strident aggression.

Antara's weakness saw exponential increase 2014 onwards, apparently because of what the southern Indian college students had discussed about their course curriculum in the previous decade.  

However, the rivalry that erupted between the Marine Corps and the financiers once S&P Global grabbed German intelligence was never brought up in Antara's context, its details protected by the pro-Orient/pro-Cathay approach of the Commerce Rocket and NFL.

Given how NFL thought of the Agency, if it had decided on yet another FIFA World Cup in the US, so be it, don't take it on right now.

During Antara's ACJ stint, it was assumed that Antara's allusions work would consist of unravelling the Marine Corps vs financiers controversy, what had brought the US military to a standstill over the previous two decades. Indian women might enjoy some financiers' privileges but that was all there was to the challenge for Antara. 

There was never any question of torturing Antara.

There was never any question of Antara researching round the clock, from world wars to military equipment, cultural topics to espionage, to be allowed the right "to cook a meal" or "mop the floors", what was her only purpose in life as per the NRIs.

It was deliberate, vengeful behaviour that Antara faced since 2014. It was connected to the Global South immigration pattern.

Since we were now aware of the 'do-trains-still-run-in-the-US' political careers of Hillary and Michelle, all research would have to progress on that front. 

The greater Antara's railroad information, the less the likelihood that the torture-surveillance would end up with Mamdani (CLASS ACT, 'Britain, then Norway', June 8, 2026)."

June 12, 2026.

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Never accept any call from an unknown international etc

Antara came across female school students of Kolkata after she enrolled at Junior College Brabourne in Kolkata in the mid-1990s.

Ajit-Anjali didn't have any relatives in Kolkata, if they visited the city in the 1980s and 1990s, they stayed at the govt circuit house. Antara was familiar with Kolkata schoolboys walking past that neighbourhood (Hindi High, which later became Birla High) but she had never seen any girl students.

Once she stayed in Kolkata, the schoolgirls she came across were mostly from 'Modern High', which was close enough to Brabourne. They didn't tuck their striped shirts into their skirts, wore jewellery and make-up (what was prohibited at Asansol AG), they painted their nails and wore pumps/shoes without socks. 

They also carried their few books without a bag, and looked at Antara with a 'I-dare-you' attitude, so Antara assumed it was some twisted play, of course they had school bags and satchels, and pairs of socks as well, something else was going on.

Later, when she saw the two-storied school building of 'Our Lady Queen...' etc, with its brown coat of paint, and still later when she got the narrative, she understood the 'dare', "We have Brown House, so wherever you were headed, keep it in mind."

The above was not enough. 

Junior College Brabourne (Arts) also had Tina M, at 16 years of age she smoked and had a boyfriend, everyone fell over each other to converse with Tina M on those rare occasions she showed up for the classes, even Antara had once asked her, "Which high school did you attend?" to which Tina M had replied, "Why, our very 'Our Lady Queen... etc."

So doing the rounds of around 500 m of a Kolkata neighbourhood, Antara had thought to herself, 'Our Lady Queen...' closer to Brabourne than 'Modern High', no wonder Tina M seemed annoyed. What a restricted life!

After the above incident, Tina M never attended classes again, nor wrote her exams, did she know how to read Antara's thoughts? Or was she supposed to come only for a few days, probably to enact 'lease family in Ukraine' and alert the French intelligence operatives in the US?

It was 1995. The previous year, the United States had hosted the FIFA World Cup.

One explanation for Tina M's presence in the Arts class would be Noida and how she alerted Kolkata about the presence of possible Polish influence at Asansol AG. It was apparently in Asansol AG's regular fests and exhibitions, if suggested by Poland, which had become popular, savvy events. 

Asansol AG students were expert salespersons, the profit percentages they agreed on were surprising, yet parents and guests obliged, apparently "no one wanted to be on the wrong side of Lou Gramm and Al Greenwood".

(Gramm and Greenwood apparently supported the various regions of Madhya Pradesh in India, had there been a Pratibha, they would have disliked her.)

The profits earned by the students from the fests and exhibitions were discussed at school during the morning assembly. However, the proceeds from the profits, how it was spent, remained between those who managed the stalls and the schoolteachers, maybe Gramm and Greenwood knew.

For those not allowed to leave India, the comparisons would be startling, "What was the 'profit' earned by those involved in the 'stalling', say the US military and their award-winning friends?" (CLASS ACT, 'Story of Multani gais', June 10, 2026.)

One way to manage the 'profits' would be to send a Kolkata female to the US to secure both the Agency and the Middle East, the former through 'friendly' behaviour (Taiwan etc) and the latter through an overemphasis on crude oil vis-a-vis EV, which was not obvious yet, no one was discussing the energy crisis as they ought to, except in India.

Once the Agency and the Middle East were secured, both of these could work with financiers to manage the profits from the 'stalling'/difficulties in travelling away from India.

If the above was true, you'd wonder about the purpose of Tina M. 

With her in-laws and others, staying in that 'strange palace' in a Marathi city.

Did they feel used? Did they feel like cameos?

And if that was the story of 'wealth creators', why should Antara be challenged if she used some information from a southern Indian college?

June 11, 2026.

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Story of Multani gais

 "We had taken enough precautions before the sale of British Houses started from 1995 onwards. 

These were arrangements for 'upper-strata'-based geopolitics, decades ahead of the actual events, especially for those not eligible for the 'upper-strata'.

Had it not been for Kemps, how would the Communist success of the last three decades prove so enduring? It was not even necessary to conduct an investigation of ICSE 1995 at a small-town school in West Bengal.

Kemps ran a round of tests on Antara in 2006. 

It was her second day as a reporter in Kolkata, she had a NICED assignment near Beliaghata (a Kolkata neighbourhood), even as she was entering the premises, a female PR agent took her aside and offered her a bottle of Yakult, a beverage not available in the Indian market at that point. 

"Two birds with one stone," Kemps had thought, "if Antara believed that her parents cared for her safety, she'd call and tell them when she got home at night that her reporting career began with a beverage offered by a female stranger. If railroads had any interest in the legit lease, they'd get involved as well, beverages offered by fellow passengers on Indian trains often led to robbery."

Neither did Antara tell her parents about the Yakult offered to her nor did the railroads bother.

Why Antara didn't stay at a working women's hostel, why she got married (after a decade spent in hostels and as paying guests during her student days) was the raging discussion.

It was not a criticism of the sibling. 

Her college in Asansol was next to a lane where subversives took a breather in between muggings, assaulting women and stopping and looting freight trains. That's where the sibling studied, for five years, junior college Science and undergraduate Chemistry.

Yes, Antara. 

The American professional class of your parents' generation and those somewhat younger, say in their 60s and 70s, were doing it. They had the exceptional encouragement of those that invested in British Houses since the 1990s. Their Indian counterparts wanted that life as well, for themselves, you've heard about it before, it was quite true.

The recipe wasn't that difficult either. The Multani Gais were sent from a British intelligence shop/Tagore den, those in India close to the event had first-hand and exceptional details. 

Only the American wealthy were not being able to break into the party!

Hence the front-page story etc.

You were wondering what erupted all over you on June 10, 2026?

Cham, Switzerland, was used by the Indian middle-class to break into the 'upper-strata'. You were aware that it was the fake 'upper-strata', the real upper-strata was for individuals like you, why you could write on gender as a journalist, the fake one wouldn't allow it.

However, the operatives of fake 'upper-strata' were nasty, they knew how you chose your friends, to make up for deficiencies. That you had become close to the Alamo Girl because of her courage to be different from the rest, that you picked a rare elitism from that Jadavpur Comp Lit chap also working for Delhi magazines.

Yes, it was the Comp Lit founder's idea (the male novelist) to have a fake 'upper-strata', you'd spend your life fighting it as the Multani Gais' supporters watched from the sidelines.

What else was left? Why the Fed cooperated with Bhagalpur?

In their own days, NS Road, Pentagon, were intelligence stalwarts. Bhagalpur wanted to become somewhat like them, with the ability to devise an Abbottabad raid of his own, from start to end, what he thought of the US military.

'The Nobel guy was so helpful in using Long Telegram to keep Antara away from US university campuses. If he was asking us to wait a few more years, now that Antara was unwell, why shouldn't we help him out?'

Antara, what would have gone wrong had you studied liberal arts in the US?

You came from India, you always studied with Indians, you wouldn't mind the other Indian students.

Did they discuss Embry-Riddle, NYMA at the classrooms of US universities?"

June 10, 2026.

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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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