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Delhi had shown its aggressive stance on the Russia-Ukraine War.

Luxury hotel room prices have "skyrocketed", what would one do? Focus on the Stalinist purge at the Lux Hotel in Moscow between 1936 and 1938? 

"Lux Hotel was a blackmail used by the NRIs, there would be no NRI had there been no Lux Hotel purge."

Antara decided to focus on Stanley Lord instead, since "skyrocketing" indicated the distress flares sent out by the RMS Titanic, which were ignored by Stanley Lord, the captain of the nearest ship. She couldn't ignore the news item about the hotels, someone was reminding her of the Marriott hotel destroyed during the 9/11 attacks.

The attention turned to Batanagar, the extensive work Antara had done on Edith Foster Dulles to understand what the town was about, how Edith's ideas had influenced the way Batanagar might benefit from the 1983 Ronald Reagan-Bruno Kriesky meeting. 

(Edith's sons, John Dulles and Allen Dulles, were American honchos.)

"If you didn't write about it, Delhi would devastate Ukraine."

The above argument was correct, men with auburn-coloured hair had filled the food courts of Delhi over the weekend, Edith Foster Dulles had passed away at Auburn, though she was born in Indiana. (Batanagar had several residents whose close relations had immigrated to Indiana.)

Edith's entire life had been a parody of the legit lease, its interest in civic causes to its desire to travel across the world. "Edith encouraged indiscriminate travel, even among those who disliked other cultures and societies, what had such a harmful impact on the environment and global emissions."

If Antara and her parents got held back within India, it had been part of Edith's ideas. "We have to capture one generation of the lease family with Communism, after that there'd be no stopping Indian Communists and NRIs from taking over the world."

It was assumed that Edith Foster Dulles had deep connections in Russia, it was families like hers that set the West Point Military Academy to collect information against any imminent Holocaust against the Jews, right from the 1870s, 

"How were they raising Edith (born in 1863), with a Bengali intelligence persona?" the US Army had wondered in the 1870s. 

The above would become a defining trait of the NRIs. Most of us had seen social media posts about how NRI children always practised their Indian language script-writing at home, in neat notebooks, their parents commenting, "No matter where we stay, Indian writing was essential", presumably to teach the western countries a lesson.

ii. "What if you had become part of the NRI apparatus? In 2025, you'd have been seen as welcoming of Putin's aggression against Ukraine?" Antara was reminded.

It was a worrisome thought, Antara and her spouse had been invited to an "initiation ceremony" in their previous neighbourhood, in December 2014, a couple of months after they had moved into that residential block.

"Let's run away to Connaught Place (a shopping and business district in Delhi), we'd say other engagements had come up," the spouse had suggested. "We cannot be part of such things."

Antara did as told, hence her household survived the last four years of the Russia-Ukraine War.

"Why were you not at the 'initiation'?" those who had organised the event had called up the spouse and asked. The excuses decided upon had been used.

iii. Antara's mother-in-law didn't have it that easy. The network of Edith Foster Dulles had surrounded her home at Batanagar, she understood it was coming from the Taptapani/Hot Water relatives, she didn't know how to connect them to what was being attempted around her.

"It was about Pearl Harbour (December 1941) and the Japanese, Edith had passed away in June 1941. Was it correct to expect Supriya to solve the puzzle? Why didn't the British advise her? Supriya had been isolated over Netaji Bose in Nazi Germany, there was no excuse for Edith to bring up the Japanese and Pearl Harbour."

Since the Agency had owned up that it didn't carry out its duties since 2017, as of now, Hoover and McMaster would have to stop bothering the spouse, no matter how Batanagar relatives felt about it. 

Else, Antara would officially complain against Hoover (of Stanford University). 

December 4, 2025.