Sometime in the mid-1980s, there was a severe winter in Asansol. Antara's father's office also had the annual sports day slated sometime over that weekend.
Without her permission, Antara's name was signed up for the race/sprint. It was awful and tense, Antara paced up and down in the days leading up to the annual sports. She could imagine the other kids, have you seen how they run with their chest thrust ahead as if the chest was in a race of its own? In Bengal, they also laughed while running, maybe it was enjoyable for them.
On the day of the annual sports at Antara's father's office, her mother dressed her up, she wore three layers, thermals and pullovers over her frock. Antara ran very fast, her legs were burning as she got on with it, but by the time, she reached the finish line, no one was there. Turned out, they had reached a long time ago, those chesty-laughing healthy sorts.
Antara got a few claps from the govt officials (the lower ones), "You finished," they said. Antara's father was on the dais with the officers, he was talking to them and didn't seem to have noticed his younger daughter came last in the qualifiers.
Antara ought to have returned home but she started running away from the annual sports day. Once she was on her own, her legs burned considerably less, she could also breathe better, even stop once in a while to collect her breath. After running for a while, she reached Durgapur, a nearby town.
Durgapur was a Communist town. It was built by the Soviets, so it was a KGB den. Its purpose was to corrupt those that were still not with Moscow, it was easy for Durgapur because the fake BT's House was often located close by, as it moved around in Asansol's suburbs.
If ever a global financier had felt thwarted or hunted by Mr Summers, it would definitely lead back to Durgapur.
Durgapur was powerful because the Europeans had feared the Soviets and wanted to preserve that intelligence. The Europeans didn't realise that either you disseminate intelligence or forget about it, the one thing you didn't do was preserve it.
Those kids in Asansol, they ran so fast, you'd be sitting with your preserve, spreading it on a slice of bread, while the Asansol kids would be in DC, sipping champagne with caviar.
Now the problem with Europeans was that while one group was 'preserving' intelligence, another was supplying NATO's weaponry-related information to Durgapur, maybe some arrangement with Kim Philby.
We can't send you Colman's mustard and the Times crossword or whatever, but would you like the latest on missile technology in the European defence sector?
And Kim Philby was a diehard Communist, he could travel around only if Chairman Mao was alive. And bad news for those born after 1976, for if Philby hadn't seen you, maybe you didn't exist. Not for the Treasury, not for the Pentagon, not anywhere.
Now why would Kim Philby be such a big deal, why would his recco matter so much? Maybe the US Congress would know, now that Bremerton/Curzon was solved.
Weird, even the Gariahat boys didn't amount to much, what a sad little world.
ii. Moscow promised the world to whoever ran fast in the Asansol-Durgapur area. One of them ran with face clenched, her long braid flying in the wind.
Her Chemistry Practical exams, two back-to-back years, were in Durgapur's Govt college, 1992 and 1993. Imagine the quality of the govt, it wanted to be remembered!!
Opie hosted that runner at her home during the Chemistry Practical exams, guess what it implied!! Peekskill and The Family were probably already at the Treasury, laughing their hearts out at the unimaginable deception from Moscow.
Antara's parents didn't care about her and Opie, supposed to care, was the spoilsport.
iii. "What were you, 'Swayambhu'?" Antara's mother used to tell her, referring to the Hindu myth of one who was born of oneself.
Such was the high cost of existence if you disturbed the Numbers blackmail of Kolkata and Dhaka, why burden the spouse with such responsibility?
Antara's parents wanted to disown her, surely she wasn't born because the husband wanted her to be born.
American defence contractors felt the same way about Antara. One of the Raytheon guys rushed to Mongolia, where the national flag had 'Soyombo', the same concept as Swayambhu, as a Buddhist motif.
No one in the world messes with a Numbers blackmail, definitely not American defence contractors. Where it was safe and snuggly, close to the NRIs, there they stayed, making sophisticated weapons to defend themselves against Eritreans and Lesotho people and Greenland Eskimos, the danger to the US.
iv. Antara saw many familiar faces in Durgapur, they were all dishonest.
Antara would like to solve the RMS Titanic and Four Card Players blackmail: the American tycoons went down to show that less of certain people were better, and the survivors on the Titanic lifeboats took the hint.
The RMS Titanic first-class passengers was the introductory episode of the Nazi Holocaust. Stanley Lord was the only one who had advance information on it.
May 24, 2025.
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