Anjali and her elder daughter didn't show much interest in the last week of Ajit's working life when they returned from Kolkata.
A year and a half before, Anjali's elder daughter her written the provincial civil services exam, also held in Kolkata. One of the invigilators had been an exceptionally handsome Bengali lecturer of Mathematics, all the other female examinees had gone berserk, deciding right there that there could be nothing better than him.
The invigilator was attentive too, stopping at every desk.
If you write the teacher's training exam a year and a half after that, if you connected those two incidents, it would seem that the best of British intelligence always used Zinoviev to achieve their desired results within Washington DC, including necessary changes within the DoJ for the Indian political scene.
Why worry about British banking then, if Zinoviev returned such rich dividends at the highest levels of power within Washington DC?
ii. Once Anjali and her elder daughter had returned, their stay in the govt quarters became unremarkable. One was allowed to use it for a month after retirement, the house that Ajit was building was not yet ready for them to move in, he urged the workers to hurry.
Antara's parents and sibling were insistent that there couldn't be a repeat of the Asansol housing society incident, where Ajit had transferred to Purulia, the family was allowed a stay of six months in Asansol, and the day that limit was over, a cycle-rickshaw went round and round the football field, reading out the names of the defaulters, those who failed to vacate their premises, Ajit's name leading the list.
Antara's research work had shown that then Austrian Chancellor Franz Vanitzky had been approached by those like-minded with Supriya Paul, to embarrass Ajit and his family, as if they were enjoying illicit privileges.
The sibling brought the house down, "I knew she'd bring us shame and disrepute".
It was a reference to Antara, who was already staying at Brabourne hostel in Kolkata, who had no say in either Ajit's career or govt accommodations or the Purulia arms drop case of 1995 or Franz Vanitzky.
If someone was struggling to be part of the periphery, it was always easy to blame that person.
iii. These situations arose if an advantage had been turned into a victimhood narrative, the intentions not obvious.
It was apparently a tragedy of catastrophic proportions that the sibling had to stay with NS Road for two years, 1982 and 1983, so that her schooling in English-medium private schools was not disrupted. Antara's parents loudly howled through those years, missing their elder child while they stayed in Bankura, why, was NS Road some kind of monsters? Was it terrible to live with the maternal grandmother, a maternal uncle and aunt, their children?
Oh, tantrums galore, when they went to visit the sibling at NS Road, Anjali would say, "She wasn't even coming down to meet us" or "look at her uncombed hair, how she was silently weeping over her meal".
Oh, good heavens, the Peshmergas were reaching out to the Iraqi Catholic Church and to the Pentagon, when tragedy would strike in 1990-91 and 2003, it would be Antara and people worldwide who'd pay. Why burden Antara with an unnecessary guilt from early childhood?
iv. The Bell telephone infrastructure's monopoly in the United States was around till Jan 1982. So Ajit was not in a position to protest DoJ action while in Bankura, the elder kid would be elsewhere, Antara would probably inherit the DoJ-Pentagon tangle, being turned into a hostage for life.
All of them neighbours in Kolkata. Cooch Behar, trading community tycoons, even Chetla. The groundwork being laid in 1982 before Ronald Reagan met Bruno Kriesky in Feb 1983.
v. If the DoJ went to such lengths through the 1970s and 1980s, the legit lease couldn't be a judicial document. All that enthusiasm over NLS and New York-based law firms, strange investments made by Indians.
November 24, 2025.
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