Those who came too late to their narrative (because of the anxieties of others, not their own fault) and yet attempted to research on the Nazi Holocaust were given nasty and repeated scares by the KSA, the German military intelligence unit that supervised Washington DC.
As it happened, the torture inflicted on Antara over the last decade was marked less by surprise but by the monotony of unceasing brutality.
Had Antara been given sudden scares by the German KSA, it was because Hessian soldiers during the American Revolutionary War had entered into an agreement with the British general William Howe, who had commanded during the Battle of Long Island in 1776.
For every lease-signing, they had agreed to a scripted game between Hessians and the Howe family of Nottinghamshire, under William's father Emanuel Scrope Howe.
However, things didn't go as per the script, did it, decided during the American Revolutionary War? If the last lease signing was BT's, his life remained shrouded in mystery. But say BT had to take the help of the SA/Sturmabteilung for his lease, surely it was not because they were descendants of the Hessian soldiers?
And as for Antara, she'd been unemployed for 13 years! She had no rights to buy clothes, converse with anyone, seek treatment for her illnesses, her bank account was withdrawn and citizenship papers not allowed. Did it seem like a playful and scripted run-up to any lease-signing, between a British aristocratic family and German soldiers?
ii. One of the Kapurthala royals had left home and married a Bengali woman called Priscilla Chatterjee. Their daughter was Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, India's first Health Minister, from 1947 to 1957. Rajkumari Amrit Kaur had been educated at a Dorset boarding school and then at Oxford University. One would have to check if such a half-Punjabi half-Bengali family, because of its extensive contacts in England, knew anything about the Howe family's further involvement in lease-signings.
ACJ had a batch topper called Priscilla, a few years senior to Antara. There was a Priscilla in Silicon Valley as well. It was Anjali who used to hide behind a door and surprise Antara, back in the 1980s, yelling 'howe'.
There was a restaurant in Asansol called 'Sudhamrit'. On their first visit there, sometime in 1987, Antara had wiped off an adult's portion of noodles. "You ate it all?" her parents had been surprised.
'Sudhamrit' should have known Antara got very hungry when she couldn't locate the lease.
June 13, 2025.
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