Antara got cucumbers in her school lunch box, almost on a daily basis. In a separate and small paper package, she'd also be provided salt and pepper. Usually, the buttered paper that wrapped the bread slices was hastily turned into the paper package.
Antara never used the salt and pepper on her cucumbers, she cannot remember why, and this was not a time to discuss surveillance and torture when she was very young.
One of those days, a classmate complained that her lunch/meal had no salt in it, Antara offered her salt and pepper package, "Gosh, it was so hot, it had pepper in it", the classmate had said.
It was not possible to deduce if the above series of incidents was a coincidence, whether there was deliberateness involved, it happened in 1986-87, around the time Barack Obama suddenly decided to attend Harvard Law School.
What was wrong with Obama the NGO guy? The White House was not friendly to rules and regulations, why the need for a law degree?
ii. From 1987 onwards, no relative, classmate or schoolteacher ever asked Antara what she'd like to do with her life, what she'd study, what were her aspirations. We were informed by Washington DC, "It was because the legit lease was lost to Japan in 1987."
All the more reason to get serious about your education and career, right, if you had to earn your living?
What was strange was that when others discussed their own aspirations, they were careful not to share the details with Antara.
We get it. We've understood why you were excited. Anthoni Salim of the Salim Group of Indonesia was a hard taskmaster, he could have provided endless opportunities to Antara but he had abruptly stopped around 2012-13, no one knew why. Maybe the Military Sealift and Military Airlift people in the US knew about it, they were known to be close to immigrants?
Sri Prakash Lohia was another Indonesian industrialist. He recently exited the scene, having apparently managed Antara's 13 years of unemployment. Neeta Ma'am thought it was cause for national celebrations, which Indonesian industrialist would be next, would it be the Hartonis, they don't stick around for long, they come and go but inflict heavy damage?
(During her Nov 2025 visit to Kolkata and West Bengal, Antara was hit with pieces of chicken bone/'har', somebody would throw a chicken's severed head, someone else another bit of the chicken's body as she walked down Kolkata's pavement. Antara got the royal treatment wherever she went, so Hartonis it must be.)
Antara stood at her window, there were balloons in the sky, there were stags grazing in the nearby field. Which one was it, Roswell or Enrico Fermi? What had the salt and pepper package implied?
iii. You could guess Antara's problem. She hadn't managed to immigrate around 2002-03, when it was fashionable to move to the United States. But when the Indonesian nexus through Mumbai and Washington DC revealed itself, it would explain every aspect of Antara's life, the sheer irresponsibility and illegality within Washington DC for Barack Obama.
Antara was left with the management of Mumbai. She didn't have any formal authority, how would she assist Indian businesses through the crisis?
One possibility was certain US officials splitting from their agencies to provide advice/assistance to Antara. Kolkata had already thought ahead, they'd call it 'foil/cover' work for the lease. They'd add that the Bell Textron work done by Hollywood stars in Mumbai was the real legit lease work, obviously it was being managed by Neeta Ma'am.
The British had thought that Nazi gauleiter research would solve the problem but the widely-accepted torture against Antara had seen to that possibility.
iv. The Bidens had betted on the Portuguese occupation of Goa. Between the Times Group and the Russian-Israeli presence in Goa, they'd work out a Jewish identity for those that were gathering in the Mumbai-Pune area.
Joe, if it were that easy, wouldn't they sign the lease every few decades, as they did in the first half of the 19th century? The introduction of Tripura changed all the rules, lease-signing took a century, sometimes more than that.
November 19, 2025.
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