"By 1990, when Antara was 11 years of age, both her high IQ and writing skills had set her apart as an intelligence analyst of the highest order.
If she was held back at all, it was because of the Hitler blackmail. Also, the French were not kind to a female child with exceptional skills.
In society, no one talked of the Hitler blackmail or misogyny. Hence, the use of Bengal politics to constantly isolate the lease family: if CPM ruled in Bengal, it was CPUSA control. If Trinamool Congress ruled, Israeli politics would dominate the scene.
It might seem that Antara's adversaries used the above situation to devise maximum advantage against Austria. In reality, her topmost adversaries constantly foraged for information, what aspect of western existence had the Treasury saved for the lease family, what had the NRIs missed out on.
Having exceptional skills from a young age and then being ignored such that the skills rusted was a tense situation. Indians have criticised Antara in vivid terms: "low people skills", "easily excitable", "unpredictable behaviour", "looked like a hare caught in the headlights".
It meant that till Sept 11, 2001, Antara was a quiet, shy, diligent student. After the 9/11 attacks, once New York had fallen to Indian Communists, Antara constantly worried about Donald Trump's agents. Were they around her, were they trying to commit her to certain ideas and ideologies, did she have an exit option?
It was not an easy life, Antara's, democracies rose and fell with her.
Antara's worst fears were when the French and the Jamshedpur honchos cranked up the pressure on the Trump machinery. It would either be at the start of the Trump reign, the initial days, or when Trump's excess became indistinguishable from Tagore terror. That's when either the French or the Jamshedpur honchos would hark back to the original assessment of Antara's intellectual profile, from when she was 10-11 years old. "So what do you make of all this?" they'd ask.
Rather let her have a couple of blogs, preempt any 'calling out' by Trump and his friends.
Had Trump and his Israeli friends, including Netanyahu, 'called out' Antara's bluff, they would have used BT's House for the purpose.
So grab and occupy BT's House, destroy Gaza, then show affinity with the Grand Mufti al-Husseini's extremist ideas, ignore the Grand Mufti's Prussian problems and make sure contemporary Prussians were not outraged and remained loyal to Bengali economists.
It required a smart analyst like Antara to survive the unbelievable evil that had become world politics."
May 5, 2025.
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