We're going to Mexico! (2)

When an extraordinary piece of equipment like a fighter jet was 'rolled over' into the sea, there had to be a demand behind such terror. It seemed the perps wanted to know, was there any possibility that Antara would inherit the financiers of her cousins in the West?

However, we had already been told by Kolkata that the city had no interest in financiers except the legit lease heir. It meant newer kinds of tortures were about to be introduced by the British against Antara, would there be anyone powerful enough to outrage or could the NRIs proceed as planned?

The above question could have been directed at the Agency or DoJ as well. Why did Hollywood choose the Navy? Maybe the anxieties being put forth were about women, NRIs claiming that women couldn't sustain intellectual interest beyond their mid-40s and hence Antara needed to be punished.

However, Antara had lived and worked in Kolkata, had known enough journalists and reporters, and of late, there had been insistent reminders from some of them that there was a campaign to make them prioritise their roles as mothers and wives, relegating several decades of reporting on government policy to insignificance. As if CII and FICCI had made a mistake in admitting female reporters into their environs.

Kolkata had made a mistake. It thought the conservative backlash was coming from the Israelis, via the national desks in Delhi. It was coming from the Bengalis of Kolkata, redirected through the Hollywood intelligence desks.

Even that kind of pressure could have been fended off--women professionals were forever proving themselves--except that because of the arrangement between Indian tycoons and 'compromised' Agency officials (Open Box)--there was no one willing to defend career-driven women in Kolkata against NRI wives.

Antara was not a chatty person back when she worked in Kolkata. There were many challenges in her life, including her work, which were difficult to solve without her narrative. But Antara had understood it was not easy being a female reporter in Kolkata, to be driven around from one news assignment to another through the day, to jostle for sound bites and breaking news, to come back exhausted late at night, given much of the city's women hardly did more than instruct the household cook with the meals and plan intrigues against the world.

It influenced Antara's decision to leave Kolkata, "This was not a city where women were meant to work in offices," she had told her husband.

Thus, through a lost fighter jet and the casual questions about further tortures against Antara, an entire aspect of female emancipation and progress was being lost in India. A female reporter was not a docile IT/tech employee, looking pretty and staring at a laptop. A female reporter was hassled and tired, scanning news on her phone and shouting questions at capitalists and politicians. They had to go, they had to be forgotten.

What about Delhi journalists? How was it that they were not in the Hollywood-fighter jet line of fire? Antara would suspect that Delhi journalists had scripted careers: cover a conflict and launch your own channel. Get employed at BBC and make sure ACJ always remained connected to Sandhurst. Work for a while and then immigrate to cute Netherlands or misty Norway.

Not that female reporters in Kolkata needed Antara's support or sympathy. But a way of life that conflicted with the trophy-wife existence of the NRIs was targeted and wiped out and Antara was still paying for it, with British and Agency initiatives that made her medication redundant.

When Hollywood agreed to be a part of NRI assault on women's emancipation, for the sake of Mexican Communism, it stopped being a part of the democratic United States. 

Hollywood was no country for female reporters.

April 30, 2025.

We're going to Mexico!

 'Jachhi amra Mexico' was a song that was often sung by one of Antara's batchmates at Asansol AG Church. She studied in the other section, Section B, Antara no longer remembered her name. She had sung the song during their Bengali Language class, otherwise there was not much interaction between the two sections. 

'Jachhi amra Mexico'/We're going to Mexico familiarised Antara with certain Latino terms. She had already studied about the 'sombrero' hat in school. The song also mentioned 'nachos' and 'tacos', what was still not part of the cuisine of India.

When Kolkata approached Hollywood for help with global Communist intrigues, there were several things to expect. It was known that Hollywood would avoid German intelligence at all costs, given the causes Hollywood was trying to revive were not favourable to Germany.

Hollywood would also get naval intrigues up and running but without using Navy personnel. As some might know, Hollywood had intelligence desks comprising Merchant Navy officials, to attack democracies worldwide.

Kolkata had approached Hollywood with a problem: what to do with those that used intelligence from multiple sources? The UK-based Indian diaspora had been unable to help, they didn't know what Bank of England thought of the matter or if there were exceptions for currency-holders. 

"Well, if England was against polygamy..." the diaspora Indians let it drift from there.

ii. Hollywood liked Mexico. Mexico stocked up on intelligence from Pratima Tagore and Rani Mahalanobis. When Hollywood stars felt anxious, when they needed anti-US propaganda, they rushed to Mexico.

It was Mexican intelligence that had suggested that for Antara's ultimate humiliation, her in-laws would have to become the mightiest force in Washington DC and London. That way, Antara would get crushed by the very institutions meant to serve her.

iii. Mexico liked returning favours, especially to India, probably for MN Roy and the Mexican Communist Party. It was cooperation between Mexican and Italian Communists that had suggested an 'au pair from London' bride for a prominent Indian political family. 

"It would keep the Tagores relevant in the Indian political scene. Anyway, what was there to Indian politics except a couple of British handlers back in London?" Hollywood had agreed, the British 'foxes' supported the Nazi Holocaust, not its victims.

iv. If Communist movements in marginal countries like Mexico and Italy united against hapless countries like India, the fate of individuals like Antara was bound to be doomed.

April 30, 2025.