Robert Pirosh was a US Army infantryman during WWII, he later worked in Hollywood.
Pirosh died on Christmas Day in 1989, when Antara's batchmates were in Class 5.
Strange, when Antara was told several months ago, "they/the Class of 1995 didn't immigrate to the United States because of you, they wouldn't leave you in India", Antara didn't believe it. She'd become unwell from the torture, she couldn't believe such things anymore.
Now NRIs were discussing, "well, we'd always have Pirosh against the Class of 1995", it was not a problem.
Not a problem for what? Independence of the Federal Reserve, apparently, that way NRIs could altogether avoid the US Govt.
What had NRIs made of Pirosh? They had apparently found out that only when all railroad families have been exposed would the legit lease be allowed to take off.
It was used against HT in 2012, "Don't believe the Class of 1995 if it requests that Antara continue in her job, they were all Pirosh agents."
What a strange argument, how did people share such misinformation?
Antara remembered the late 1990s, waiting at Purulia railway station to take the overnight train to Kolkata, where she studied at Brabourne, Ajit accompanying her. The train would often be late, they'd stand on the railway platform as the lights came on, discussing things.
"A long time ago, on this same platform, my father (BT) would come to see me off, take the same train as you were taking to Kolkata, I had started working by then," Ajit would say. "As the train left, I'd see from the window, BT standing there, a tall man but so alone, on the deserted platform, no one around him. It wrenched my insides, what could I do for him?"
The legit lease didn't take off when railways or railroad families stopped, it waited alone so that railways could run.
It did so generation after generation, waiting alone.
December 28, 2025.
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