There was no clear reason why Antara was trying to develop a discourse through her blog, for what purposes. It was evident that no Indian in any part of the world cared if she was reacknowledged as a person, or if she died of lack of medication or if she never saw an active bank account again.
Such confidence among Indians was possible if every single American had pledged, possibly in writing, that there was neither a lease nor a lease family, that no family from elsewhere had ever become a hostage in India, that there had never been centuries-old Tagore intrigues against the US and that the flourishing immigration racket from the Indian subcontinent was unconnected to the above.
Thus, what Antara's blog might imply for the Americans was that they couldn't pledge or commit to anything in writing if they didn't have the required information. They possibly hadn't heard about Richard Darre-Roberts family-north Kolkata setting up base in Argentina.
Apparently, they were shocked for the first time since 1961, when Raul Hilberg's 'The Destruction of European Jews' had been published.
As Americans showed surprise over Darre-Roberts-north Kolkata, the NRIs caught their anxiety. Within a few hours, that anxiety transmitted to New Delhi, where the local citizens started showing their concern. All women have to come together, pretend to support the lease, the Ajit anecdotes were more popular and amusing for the Americans, certain individuals never got over their teenage or youthful fascination for adventurism and surprise, and that was the quality of the research without the assistance of any intelligence outfit?
ii. Had Antara managed to visit the United States, she would, therefore, find no one that was familiar with the US before 1918.
Strange, for if you stayed in Kolkata, like Antara did for a decade, most of the informal conversation/gossip was about Kolkata of the 19th century. For that matter, in any Indian town or city, conversation starters consisted of comparisons between what the town looked like several generations ago, how it had expanded or contracted, notable incidents from the past etc.
Either most Americans had not stayed in the US before 1918 or they didn't bring it up because it would embarrass the NRIs and other Global South immigrants. However, the lease was not meant for those who had immigrated after 1918.
Those better informed than Antara might blame the Bureau of Investigation, it had little urge to discuss America's past, before the 1960s, regarding the spatial history of a place as the task of militaries and land surveyors.
The Bureau, for its part, would definitely blame Washington DC--any immigration based on weakening the Balkans through conflict was not conducive to discussing American history.
Antara would argue that there was no way forward if the US didn't exist before 1980 (for the CPM) and 1985 (for the BJP).
iii. Antara's urgency was increasing, for even as Indian women tried to grab Houses of privilege and wealth from Austria, she had to find the actual European Houses, located within the United States. She'd have to do it while avoiding the Bureau, given most of these Houses had faced unnatural and inexplicable attacks and couldn't afford a Bureau investigation at such a late stage.
If Antara found these Houses, the US military would require adequate notice, for these Houses represented unresolved wars, and violent tempers would have to be soothed across the world by the US State Department.
All of the above covered around two decades from the mid-1880s, once the lease family had moved to Ukraine. Imagine how present-day Americans would have felt if we had gone back to 1865.
As any worthwhile insurance broker would say, "You cannot have securities and exchanges about everything in life, and you surely couldn't try to buy/influence financiers to protect Holocaust perps. There was a natural order of things that handpicked officials in the Treasury wouldn't be able to prevent".
June 15, 2025.
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