You cannot please anyone, anytime

On her way out, Antara altogether destroyed the fun and games around the lease.

Four months into the Trump-Vance NRI festival, the Prussian lease's triumph had been timed in a certain way so that Indian women found another reason to celebrate.

The Treasury had expected Antara to use the time when she was cowering--remember she had been in a constantly cowering state since 1987--to solve the puzzle around Zinoviev's inputs on Adolf Hitler, and maybe some Bhawal Sannyasi case, as much as was allowed by Dhaka.

Instead, Antara started researching why her close relatives had multiple safeguards from European defence firms (not all the firms were Nazis). Were Antara's relatives being protected from her? She started connecting them to her relatives' behaviour from her childhood and the Prussian lease's fun and games disappeared, not likely to be resumed anytime soon.

ii. The most obvious explanation for the above: the close relatives were backed by European defence firms to preserve Indian democracy, if it happened that the 1980-Mykolaiv arrangement was about a minor and likely to be misused by powerful people. 

However, when Antara turned an adult, neither did she get her narrative nor any protection of her own. All she could remember from the clues when she was 18-19 years old was that better quality Europeans, mostly Agency, were in British control, training NRIs to learn to conform to western society.

So close relatives were being protected by European defence firms,

random NRIs who hated the West were being taught how to fit in by European royals,

what was going on, was Antara Attila the Hun?

There was a reason personal photographs were posted on the FACSIMILE blog, so that everyone knew who these arrangements were against, a skinny, myopic intelligent student in the 1990s. No US official faced such attacks as Antara did. 

Start thinking about the element of excess involved, before Antara was again forced to visit Kolkata, in utter disregard for her safety.

iii. Antara spent her entire life toning down her intellect, trying to appear silly, playing Antakshari/singing games (what a mighty bore!) to blend in with others, always agreeing with the bizarre opinions of her friends, for Indian women showed annoyance if you didn't agree. In Bengal, they also reported back to the Party office. 

Antara even studied less to make more mistakes during exams. What more could she possibly do to deny her real persona?

You want to know what Antara would have done had she not gone to Junior College Brabourne? Antara's parents were leaving Asansol anyway, there was a senior high school she could have joined, opting to study Commerce, with Economics, Accountancy, Business Mathematics and Business Studies. 

Maybe she should have done so, we would have immediately known what the US H1B visa was all about, instead of analysing the IITs three decades later. Or maybe the Nobel Committee would have given the prize in Economics to Kolkata in perpetuity, instead of giving it once in a while, for inability to solve the Graur Episode. 

iv. Everyone knew what you feared.

You feared the White House because Harry Hopkins had reported that it was never what it seemed to be.

You feared the American newsroom because generations of metal-spies had said that the Communism of American journalists was suspect.

Antara stayed isolated, German intelligence didn't know the first thing about her. Why constantly obsess about her life?

May 18, 2025.