True minds

The western world has agreed to sacrifice the lease in order to thwart Antara.

That was the decision at the G7 summit, a hasty meeting of minds, no disagreement, most dignitaries left much before the summit was scheduled to be over.

From what one heard, AAP and Kejriwal didn't even manage to come up in the discussions, lest particular Indian royal families get identified with the AAP obsession. 

(India was a multi-party democracy since the 1950s, most Indian royals have contested and won elections for the INC or BJP, what did those political parties lack that AAP was offering, so not something you could solve at G7 if you had to exit in a dramatic fashion.)

ii. Most employers of Antara's peers were apparently confident that they could maintain the status-quo in the employment sector for another five years. No one kept the Buckingham Palace in mind, which meant unemployment was the problem, not lack of wealth. Had the Windsors been employed at corporate offices, their needs would have been taken into consideration. 

If the Palace could not identify which family member had cast racial slurs at Meghan and why, it would remain a human rights violation. Antara's lease proposal, which focused on human rights, could then look deeper into the racial tensions within the Palace. G7 was an Indian royals' club, but it had its chance, and did not care for the Palace. 

The above was one way of disrupting the western world-Global South bonhomie. 

iii. Another would be to check if JK Galbraith was working for NATO, preparing the ground in New Delhi from 1961 to 1963, to make sure certain NATO agents could enter India by the mid-1960s. That was Antara's guaranteed assignment, it had clearance, she wouldn't have to check how Indian tycoons felt about it. 

New Delhi at the peak of the Cold War, LBJ days, the US space exploration programme not yet with Indian tycoons. 

By that time, the western world-Global South bonhomie would be considering couples' counselling.

iv. The third would be Oppenheimer's security clearance hearing. 

One might hear they were not even having the same meals, the western world and the Global South.

If all of the above research took one year, it would cover a fifth of the lease work, given Antara had requested five years. 

Antara missed her parents, never mind how they were criticised on a daily basis, they'd have been so happy that Antara had come that far.

"And your mother didn't eat a thing through the day," Ajit would keep saying, the day Antara had won the Maggi Quiz Contest in 1990.

June 17, 2025.