If Big Tech approved since the 1990s, we had to wait for WaPo?

1. When the Communists from Hollywood and elsewhere had gathered in New Zealand of the late 1990s (around 1998-99) to decide what direction the US Govt would take, it was known that the likes of Antara and certain other females in India might need the support of the US Navy.

We had seen the MTV video, 'Blame it on the weatherman', as if the weathermen had a conscience, it showed young females floating on a boat on a rain-swept day.

2. The reality turned out to be vastly different from the New Zealand scenario. Antara was never offered any help from the Navy, she never saw her friends and relatives again, it was as if the Communist machinery had swallowed them. 

For the above scenario, Monjoo, her friends including Admiral Adhar etc, were responsible.

If Monjoo and her friends were attempting Military Sealift-like episodes every few weeks, it was because of what they had achieved since 2012.

3. The decision to 'out' HT apparently came from the above. Whatever happened hereon ought to be the responsibility of Monjoo. Her friends had suggested,

"We could still blame the weathermen, inform Antara that the legit lease was abolished on January 20, 1957, on the day of the second Eisenhower inauguration, at 12 noon, temperature being 39F and wind speed at 10 mph."

However, the second Eisenhower inauguration took place privately on Jan 20, 1957 and publicly on Jan 21, 1957 (Jan 20, 1957, being a Sunday). 

As Anjali would often say, "Viswa Bharati (Tagore's university in West Bengal) was open on Sundays."

It implied the Sunday-Monday distinction was for those who had Sundays off, so probably Admiral Adhar's workplace. 

It was satisfactory, since we now knew that Monjoo's people got the lease abolished in 1957.

4. Ajit had taken his ISc exam in 1957 (Intermediate Science). He had also cleared the IIT entrance. Thereby, we understood why BT didn't allow Ajit to study at an IIT, obviously no one went to an IIT for studies if there was no legit lease in the world.

BT had also said that he was "saving money for Ajit's sister's wedding and couldn't afford an IIT", what might that imply? 

BT had probably implied that there had to be a US economy in the 21st century, as Antara awaited her narrative, decade-long torture and contact-corroboration, so he couldn't float another legit lease for Ajit.

Thus, if the US economy was another legit lease, 'what on earth was a legit lease' sounded like 'It's the economy, stupid!'

The need to steal what was supposedly in New Zealand decreased considerably? No?

5. What was the legit lease before 1957? 

It was called the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, or RFC, it was established by the Hoover administration in 1932, we had a name for who ended it as well, in 1957. 

If the end of the legit lease had nothing to do with the second Eisenhower inauguration, what was Monjoo playing at?

6. One possibility was that unable to establish that only those with von Habsburg surnames were worth consideration, the WB Govt had approached the instability-expert Monjoo.

"If we jeopardised Antara's existence in Delhi, kept putting her at the brink of danger, kept destabilising her home, would WaPo reveal the differences between the War Finance Corporation (WWI) and Reconstruction Finance Corporation (1931-32)?

Was it possible that Austria was not part of RFC, disgusted at the thought of Pratibha?"

7. When WB Govt and Monjoo teamed up, who did they think would answer from within Austria?

The navies in peril, Moscow might fall, but the Bengalis needed to know what Austrians thought of Pratibha, hence Monjoo's services had been sought?

8. Wolfgang Schussel seemed to have won the trust of Monjoo and the WB Govt.

Chancellor of Austria, from February 2000, when Antara was about to leave Brabourne, till Jan 2007, when the Dershowitz lease was ready. 

Thus, the Alamo Girl had been correct, "Your eye infection in April 2000, all of it was because of what happened then."

9. If Wolfgang Schussel had satisfied all queries between 2000 to 2007, what kind of exigency arose around Tillerson and Exxon that Schussel had to be asked the same questions again, in such a terrifying way?

10. You hadn't asked about IBM and Anjali before Dershowitz? 

That Ajit had purchased two schoolbags for Antara from Denny's shop in early 1993, implying IBM had approved,

that Anjali returned both, choosing a military camouflage schoolbag that was too tiny for Antara's use, she had to roll her textbooks and carry them to school, that her textbooks got ruined? 

You were using Antara's life for damage-control 25 years later, Big Tech would change its mind if you kept conversing with Schussel, Exxon, WaPo?

May 28, 2026. 

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Watson...my dear...

When SIDO (Small Industries) was established in 1954, the excuse that was offered was Reeba'a age.

"She was 18 years old, engaged to be married but needed some Union Govt backing. 

The SIDO people would hold discussions on BT's behalf, if there was any Nazi Holocaust-related development, he'd find out, say about those who didn't want it as mainstream history, those who were not willing to believe how many died, those who wanted to dispute the scale of the killings."

The problem with Dr Cade was that it seemed he had rushed to SIDO from the Texas-Florida region of the United States, not the other way round.

Supriya, who married around 1974, had been in bed for the first two years after her marriage, suffering from nephrological ailments. Dr Cade was a nephrologist.

Thereby, no claim actually arose on Supriya's offspring from the US, since she had indicated the closeness within Florida between Dr Cade and any possible American politician.

Dr Cade was known for treating dehydration patients, he invented Gatorade.

Around the time Supriya was suffering from the above ailment, Ajit was down with a heat fever in Purulia, burning up, delirious, so dehydrated that "around 4 am, the physician was called in, he recommended ice-slabs to put the patient on as quickly as possible, who'd get ice-slabs at that hour so Nilu (one of AT's sons) went to the ice-house and got them, somehow Ajit's life was saved" or so Anjali would say.

Thus, Dr Cade's and SIDO's supposed Nazi Holocaust discussions had led Supriya and Ajit towards life-threatening illnesses.

Since Dr Cade donated "significant sums of money", in his later years, to the Lutheran Church, Reeba owed us an explanation.

SIDO was meant for her.

Her older son worked at a Lutheran NGO in the 1980s, almost half a decade.

One of their wives had said, seated at the Housing living room, "Why should I call my husband by his name? I didn't do so was a different thing, what if I wanted to?"

Why did you assume, Chetla, that there was only one personnel file in the world to play with?

You wanted to play some FIDO with SIDO?

May 27, 2026.

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Denying to peak in South Korea

 1. When it came to the legit lease, the US officials must know that the 'stealing' being attempted as of now was a rehearsal. 

When the actual theft of the legit lease began, the world would be in turmoil, because of Chetla, wars raging across countries.

2. As was known, several War on Terror operatives had used their social media accounts and posted photos over the last decade that compromised the US military, providing ideas about the financial mayhem that was to follow the theft of the legit lease. 

Chetla wouldn't go ahead otherwise.

3. The initial scare was meant for the German military. "The New Zealand Govt was no longer willing to acknowledge that the Hanseatic League was involved in WWII's Pacific Theatre" (where the US fought Japan).

4. As soon as the Germans showed fear, anxiety, indecisiveness, they'd rush to the Irish, knowing that Chetla was involved. 

"There, Catherine and Helen would get involved with the Germans, everyone would ignore Rossa, who was a legit lease person and was collecting the reasons for the German anxiety."

5. After several such attempts at 'theft' of the legit lease, Rossa and others would be in a position to approach the Gaza Board of Peace (apparently within South Korea) to discuss what was so German about the legit lease.

6. At such a point, Antara's relatives could assert against her, "mincing and deliberate tone" was preferable over "violent insult". 

They could say, 'Let us tell you how it worked, that Aunty and Mrs So-and-So (Kerala) could also be useful' etc.

That the entire Gaza Board of Peace and the White House in Washington DC was backing the relatives should not become obvious.

(For communication purposes, we have to emphasise that the White House loved the relatives, it altogether disliked Antara.)

7. Severe disrespect towards the Hanseatic League was needed for success. 

We were regarding a certain individual as an Austrian-Polish guy, never Hanseatic, remember the not-Communists already knew the motivation for the Oslo Accords and the Abraham Accords, "pure misogyny towards Antara and thereby 'bracketing' the Middle East", we couldn't afford another Hansa lecture on biological daughters. 

8. But if it came to the Hansas lecturing, go with what Chinsurah had suggested. 

Remind them that we knew that the DoD would release the Combined Chiefs' Ukraine narrative, as it had done with Ajit, "In Antara's case, MENSA (a group that calculated IQ) could beat Hansa, Antara needn't get any narrative at all."

9. Once the spouse was alerted that Antara wouldn't get any Ukraine narrative, the only purpose of the marriage was to find out how far the 'fraud' was encouraged from within the US, he'd go away.

10. Once the spouse had gone away, put the Australian envoy in South Korea on the Gaza Board of Peace, he'd submit a written report about Monash (WWI etc) on why a Nazi Holocaust of the scale described by Hilberg was quite impossible.

May 26, 2026.

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Ucha hain dariya mein jhanda hamara!

Antara was asked to elaborate on Rewa.

Antara saw a 'white tiger', for the first time, in May 1990.

They had been visiting Puri, Orissa. Ajit, his wife and daughters. Bimal with his wife and daughter, so seven of them.

They had gone to a forestry reserve, when it started raining, furiously, there was no shelter along the pathways, the occasional shed crowded with huddling tourists. Antara's group of seven kept walking in that torrential rain, clothes drenched, when someone shouted, "There's the 'white tiger', it was retreating into its cave because of the rain".

And so it was, they had taken photographs of that 'white tiger', its face no longer visible, as well.

These anecdotes were not the property of any Benioff or former Time magazine journalist.

Two months later, Antara went for the Maggi Quiz contest, in July 1990. 

Antara's school was the champion of that inter-school quiz contest, Antara's efforts were considered crucial for that triumph, all her teammates had acknowledged it, Antara didn't know about Rewa or Bhopal.

A few days after that Maggi Quiz Contest, a classmate (Noida) came up to Antara and said, "I was being given a hard time, I've been scolded by my mother and elder brother because of you and your quiz contest." 

For the remainder of their school years (another five years or so), Noida hardly talked to Antara again.

If SIMEX and jaundice info came to Noida after school was over, Antara didn't understand the implications of "mother" or "elder brother".

Recently, it was suggested that Bhopal was probably responsible, given it had wanted the accession to go another way, its Nawab had married into the Afghan Durrani royalty, in Peshawar in 1925, a Sadozai at that.

Antara didn't like being included on the Sadozai side, she had not been consulted but every time she placed her fair arm next to the tanned one of her father, Ajit would say, "Tumi to Sado, khub Sado" and then he'd run away. (You were Sado, weren't you?)

For example, the Balochi Bugtis had changed sides in recent decades and joined the Sadozais, Antara knew one of the Balochis from ACJ, he didn't stay in touch with her for Sadozai cause?

What a waste, the Great Game Politics!

Ajit expressed fondness for Bhopal's eldest daughter, Surayya was his favourite in Bollywood, Bhopal's princess was called Suraya Jah, Nawab Gowhar-i-Taj Abida Sultan.

They had traipsed around quite a bit around the Taj Mahal in Agra, Ajit and Anjali, back in 1969.

Even Asansol AG and the sibling's family seemed to have been well-treated. 

The former seemed to have been close to Sikander Saulat Sajida Sultan, the second daughter who had succeeded Bhopal's Nawab, and had married into the Pataudi clan.

The sibling's side was probably with Nawabzadi Qamar-i-Taj Dulhan Rabia.

Antara supposedly got the Bhopal Nawab's second marriage, to a local woman. Antara remembered watching a television programme about Bhopali Muslims, elaborate breakfast taken while seated on the bed, a multitude of meat dishes.

Thus, Antara ended up with Farzana's side, so she was forced out of the Great Game, who made that decision? 

For years, after 1990, a classmate would walk up to Antara and say, "It was the duty of every dutiful girl to...", one could make up the rest of the sentence, it began the same way.

Farz. Duty.

One could guess why Antara was out of the Great Game? Which marriage between a Bengali man and a supposed banking heiress of the West had led to the debacle? Why no one wanted to know Antara ever again, not part of the Great Game since 1990?

Feb 1990: Important marriage.

May 1990: Rewa and 'white tiger'.

July 1990: Maggi Quiz.

It could have gone so different for Netaji Bose and his years spent in Nazi Germany.

Afsos!

Regrets!

Neither the Pentagon nor the Great Game aficionados would ever find out what happened in Afghanistan, 2001 onwards.

Let the relatives and the former batchmates preserve their Bhopali traditions with secrecy. 

Or with the West Bengal Govt.

May 25, 2026.

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When spring came to Texas

In their Bagdogra years in north Bengal, where Antara spent her early childhood, her parents used to call out to her, "Tumi Chikmagalur?"

Some Indian politician had contested the Chikmagalur electoral seat from southern India, it was considered important for the Berlin 1945 narrative, in case there was a sudden imposition of direct US military over Germany, violating the latter's sovereignty.

Hence, "Tumi Chikmagalur?", known for Indian coffee.

Later, "Dikshit, where were you?"

Anjali would often mention Raebareli as well, another favourite among politicians for contesting elections.

"Dikshit, were you coming with us to Vasanta or not?"

Vasanta was an Exxon den.

You should have seen the potato filling in its masala dosa, so greasy you might slip and fall on it.

Easy with the coconut chutney, Mrs AI, they were aware that Antara's 'vibrant decade' had been sold to Vasanta or whatever. 

They might be aware what extraordinary steps were taken to prevent a Vasanta, sorry an oil spill, in the Strait of Hormuz.

"Dikshit, we were not going to wait forever."

Dikshit was a former cop who joined politics in 1984, hope he didn't get identified with SIMEX and jaundice (Class Act, 'What if it was all the same?', May 21, 2026.) 

If he did, his side would have to publicly proclaim that NATO liked him more than the United States and everyone knew what the US might do.

"Dikshit, Dikshit, were you messing with us?"

HT was supposed to meet Antara in April 2014, HT cancelled at the last minute because of Noida. Dikshit had passed away a few days earlier. 

Few individuals knew that his experience as a cop and politician, what he knew of SIMEX and jaundice, was given to Noida.

Noida was now Dikshit, they've been shouting from close by,

"Dikshit, we'd meet you at Vasanta then."

Vasanta, whatever you called yourself, please inform everyone that you loved crypto, you disliked the Treasury, hence UPI? Just one individual's fascination with UPI imposed on everyone?

Please tell everyone, Vasanta, that you didn't like allusions work, you were certain that "no living official had ever provided allusions, it was a few pages of work stolen after officials passed away."

Vasanta? You didn't tell US officials that Mt Abu was an anarchist den, why NS Road shifted closer to Rajasthan?

That as long as Antara's relatives were useful to Mt Abu, there would be no corroboration or employment for Antara?

Oh, for US officials, the Brussels plan was cancelled because Big Fish in the Net knew the Minimi gun-makers of Belgium. It was not advisable, when NATO's priorities remained controversial and what if Big Fish in the Net didn't like so much attitude from Antara?

May 22, 2026.

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What if it was all the same?

Antara had been assigned to work on Chetla. The latter was not being identified nor was she being harassed because of the discussions. 

Thus, China's interest in the matter had taken everyone by surprise.

"Chetla had lived in the US for more than two decades when the US Govt decided to visit China in May 2026. Antara had often shown her surprise that Chetla had currency aspirations but neither headed any think-tank nor was employed in global institutions. However Antara's concerns about Chetla's career were ignored, the Treasury should have checked with the Presidential Foundations and Museums before leaving for China, whether Chetla was about to join any of them."

By May 20, 2026, Antara had severed all connections with the US Govt (Class Act blogpost, 'It was over') so it might seem that Chetla would have to accept a Foundation job from a govt in which Antara had little or no interest.

While Antara retained some interest in the activities of the US Govt, the C.P. and Berar Fisheries Act of 1948 (Madhya Pradesh) had got her worried. 

As some of you might know, Ajit wore his hair long as a child. 

By the mid-1940s, his hair was down to his waist. "Your paternal grandmother braided Ajit's hair, at the end of the day, after he had come home from playing with his cousins, she braided it as a 'bera-beni'," Anjali would say.

With the Benioffs owning Time Magazine since 2018 and references to Central Provinces and Berar, you might understand why Antara felt anxious.

Did the strictures on what kind of NATO leadership the world needed come from Central Provinces and Berar? If those meant to follow the strictures showed signs of slacking, did the Benioffs scold them, let's say since 2013? Why did the western countries never protest what Berar was doing?

Over the last few days, it seemed the Benioffs had not liked it mentioned that Barings Bank might have taken an interest in Austria (Class Act, 'Businessmen of repute? May 18, 2026). 

It followed that the Benioffs would be furious if it was suggested that Brabourne Junior College dorm had been gathered to be mentored in the Nazi Holocaust narrative by Barings Bank.

Antara severing connections with the US Govt might be blamed on Austria, what if others started severing connections as well? That wouldn't be Austria? It would become obvious these were WWII people, they were well-off and wanted to preserve their WWII information from distortion, so they'd be investing in Houses, in Asian countries not secure with their narratives.

Where was the difficulty with narratives? 

It was not enough to know that Pratibha had died of jaundice, that Security Intelligence Middle East (SIME) had been blamed, that SIMEX (Singapore International Monetary Exchange) had been established in 1984.

Antara had jaundice in 1984, her parents had taken her to school on an autorickshaw because it was her birthday, why had SIMEX and jaundice come together again, this time in Antara's life? 

Who was encouraging her to sever connections with the US Govt was not the point. 

Why did you wait to give Antara her narrative till the Benioffs purchased Time magazine in 2018? What would have happened if Antara had found out her narrative a few years earlier?

Antara's maternal great-grandfather (he was called Motilal) had interesting anecdotes about fisheries. 

"Motilal had his own ponds, whatever was caught in the morning was cooked, a huge pot of fish curry simmered in the courtyard through the day, anyone passing by would have lunch, we never had to count the pieces/steaks of fishes like you did, ladles scooped out the fishes, how many didn't matter," Anjali would say.

Antara was perusing colonial fisheries legislation and found "private water" defined as "exclusive property of any person...as owner, lessee or in any other capacity".

And then there was Bengali comic story of an individual who had entered the "private waters", in the early hours of the morning, to grab some fish, and what a furore in the neighbourhood, "seems like we got a big fish in the net".

May 21, 2026

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It was over

Antara had been reminded that Ajit didn't leave her bereft, that he had provided her valuable hints in the phone conversations they had in the last few days of his life, in 2010.

"Lying on the sofa, I was thinking of you."

"Why were you lying on the sofa during daytime?"

"Just like that. That time in New Delhi, in 2004, when we were going past the McDonald's outlet, and you had said it would cost us a month's earnings to eat there."

"I was wrong, it didn't cost as much, and later we ate at McDonald's, in 2008, surely you remember that?"

"Of course, that was Nehru Place, that I remember."

Antara should have remembered that earlier in 2010, in a phone call from Mumbai (the above was from Asansol), Ajit had said, "If I ever manage to go to Delhi again, I'd stay with you for a month, no more than that."

It was not enough. You would have to know Clark McAdams Clifford, born on Christmas Day, in 1906, the same year as BT was born.

Clark McAdams Clifford served four Democrat Presidents, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson and Carter. He lived till 1998.

Those like Clifford could afford the Democrat rout of 1980 and 1984 given the lease upper-hand the US Govt had from the 1950s and 1960s. (Class Act, 'Businessmen of repute?', May 18, 2026.)

There was nothing frightening about it. Antara's allusions had indicated, nay stated, that the suave and sophisticated US officials, as depicted in movies and news coverage, existed only through the Cold War, from the late 1940s to the early 1990s.

Antara had considered US officials as an 'entrapment mechanism' whose failings would have consequences across the world, within countries and societies, not merely her.

However, if Clifford, born in the same year as BT, had been thorough, then countries and societies might survive the crisis, these testing times, only Antara would be severely harmed.

It was good news. 

Except Antara, most of you who got isolated, couldn't speak freely, received negligent medical care, ought to be able to demand a better quality of life.

"The US Democrats might have wanted Antara to lead a degenerate existence, why were the rest of us suffering?"

You might say it wouldn't happen because of WWII dilemmas. Some would argue that before 2016, Antara had never encountered ferocity such as that of the US Democrats, why she could mention 'miners' and 'gallants' (Class Act, 'Because of Belarus', May 12, 2026.) 

Others might say that Clifford would have been less successful if "the British had prevailed in any part of the world after WWII, including the US."

The British apparently invented the game of cricket. 

Clifford was indicted by a grand jury in July 1992, over his involvement in the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). A year after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, you might not have to wonder where information against BT and Ajit was headed.

Anjali often said, "In these govt jobs, the wife must know as much as the husband."

Antara was surprised, Anjali knew civil engineering?

Oh no, "unofficial informal advisor", that was the profile being discussed.

What kind of an upper-hand in the lease?

Why did a lawyer identified with the Democrat side receive support from all ideologies and affiliations?

It was a post-Nazi Holocaust world for all of us, not merely the Jews. How would the lease become a "fragile hope" for the Jews but a sturdy possibility for the others? 'Businessmen of repute' from Kolkata had apparently suggested expanding on the details of the Nazi Holocaust. Since it was available to the not-Jewish people, the Jews would get isolated and lose their lease. 

Worse for Antara, she would get identified as a Navy person without realising that Clifford had served in the Navy and probably left instructions about dealing with those like Antara.

The following were Reagan's instructions to Peter Grace, in June 1982, about how to reduce inefficiency and waste in the US Govt, compared with what Antara heard through the 1980s.

"Be bold."

("Play only up to the culvert, never cross the culvert, never play beyond, don't even run there by mistake".)

"We want your team to work like tireless bloodhounds."

("Don't have to study all the time, go for a walk, go watch television, why were you always so grim, don't always sit there with your nose buried in the textbook.")

"Don't leave any stone unturned..."

("Never discuss outside what you had heard at home. Not a word. What you have heard at home stopped there.")

...in your search to root out inefficiency."

("So what if something was broken, it could be replaced or repaired, you didn't eat lunch at school, so what, it didn't matter, eat some other day.")

The US Govt grew up since the 1980s under the Grace Commission.

Antara grew up since the 1980s under the Lack of Grace Commission.

That's why it was not working.

Antara would like to sever all her connections with the US Govt.

May 20, 2026.

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Did China discuss Iran's Montazeri, not FIFA or Montezuma?

It was well-known, by now, that certain celeb women pursued blackmails around Operation Market Garden (WWII) while Ajit kept bearing the brunt of the railroads' blackmails.

You get the point?

There were enough men with them as well, against Operation Market Garden, but it had the appearance of being an all-women initiative. These women might have missed an anecdote from Antara's schooldays.

Every once in a while, Antara would return home from school and find the residue of what seemed like a Hindu religious ritual in their (Housing) living room.

"Why, what happened here when I was at school?" Antara would ask of Anjali.

"It was your paternal grandfather's death anniversary, so your father did the annual funerary ritual (sradhho), not much in the way of 'prasad'/offering, some fruits etc, if you wanted to have it. You know how your father combined the two death anniversaries of his parents in one sraddho ritual, despite the dates being different? So we had taken out the photograph of your paternal grandmother as well."

Thus, Antara was never alerted beforehand about BT's annual funerary tradition at home. 

In which case, if Antara was to merely receive a summary of the events later, why did you hide the men who were part of attacks against Operation Market Garden from WWII?

You would point to your superstar, your second-best intelligence move in Ms Dutt, sent to Asansol AG as a teacher in early 1993. 

(The topmost intelligence move would always remain 'holding back the address', for a decade till the present day, when Antara didn't know where her closest relation resided in Mumbai.)

You would argue that Ms Dutt's 'rosette' was about the German Confederation, that Germany never seemed to be able to resolve if a strong central leadership was better suited to its purposes or if a 'ridiculous' Imperial concept, as it existed from 1870-71, was a better idea.

Your implications were obvious. If Chetla managed to take Silicon Valley along when it came to organising Germany as US military districts, then would the DoD agree to a strong military governor, which evoked comparisons with Germany of the 1930s?

Or would DoD offer a weak military leader to Germany, in which case, which individual was to be 'outed' as a weak Pentagon leader?

By 2013-14, Chetla's excitement, probably Ms Dutt's as well, had led to a situation where Indians needed to be mentored into a highly tech, digital, strongman economy. 

"We know what the DoD would finally choose, weak leadership could be hidden by savvy tech."

Was Chetla always a prophetic individual?

The problem with your second-best intelligence stratagem, aka Ms Dutt, was that she didn't follow through or even realise the implications of what was Asansol AG.

By 1993, taking Antara out of the class, "aren't you a great writer so why don't you cover the school's annual awards ceremony" was not worth the effort.

It had already been done, during one of the NS Road nieces 'First Rice' ceremony, in 1990. While everyone else celebrated, Antara sat in one of the rooms, "you just guard the gifts being deposited", Anjali had told her. 

'Write a report on the annual awards ceremony' sounded similar, didn't it?

How was it meant to be done? Ms Dutt should have given Antara her assignment in front of the entire class. The report was to be published in the school magazine, Antara's byline would be there, it was not a secret.

In the end, her classmates ended up reading it, they thought it was quite a thriller, "by the time I was in the first paragraph, I was hooked, 'students waiting under the cozy warmth of the November sun', good job Antara!"

And a byline in a school magazine? 

Antara tore out the page that had her report, threw the magazine away, "I wasn't going to carry that stupid school magazine around all my life" so if you pressed ahead with military districts of Germany, using Roy Larsen (Time Magazine), Antara would send an email that "Time Inc was no longer to be considered part of the legit lease".

Oh yes, about the online entry on Kolkata's National Library that no longer elaborated that it was the residence of British Viceroys but provided a history of the libraries of Kolkata?

The British Viceroys in Kolkata were sent by the Hanseatic League, they had information on the Baltic Sea and North Sea trade. 

The British Viceroys, at Belvedere in Alipur, were only about Germany.

Chetla was prophetic but didn't recognise Germany when it was staring at her in the face?

Antara didn't get her research job, you deceived the British, they didn't realise you regarded the lease remit as "Montezuma, not Montazeri". 

China was still explaining the Middle East to you?

May 19, 2026.

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Businessmen of repute?

There were ways of dealing with the accusations being made and the severity of those accusations.

At Brabourne's undergraduate dorm, on the first floor, where Antara stayed around 1998, certain individuals had indicated that it was 

"at such a dorm within Brabourne (implying the Junior College Brabourne dorm of which Antara had been a resident) that Barings Bank had been vanquished because of the activities of its operatives trader Nick Leeson of the Singapore office, those that were supposed to maintain order (implying the higher defence establishments within the US) did nothing."

Barings Bank went bankrupt on February 26, 1995, Antara's Junior College classes began in August 1995.

However, two US aircrafts had come under attack in Cuba on February 24, 1996, exactly a year after Barings Bank had collapsed.

The enormity of the accusation ought to be clear now. 

It seemed Junior College Brabourne dorm had benefitted from the collapse of Barings Bank because all of them were working for Cuba, which was a den of intrigues against former European monarchies.

We needed to be careful.

The first suggestion of commercial activities in almost everyone's life was through a game of Monopoly.

It was no different for Antara.

However, Antara didn't have her own Monopoly set in childhood, say around 1984-85, she played a Bengali version of it called 'Byabshayi' or 'Businessman', at a house next door to NS Road, where her childhood friend Foochoo stayed with his four older siblings and parents.

It was not altogether accurate to say that Antara and Foochoo got to play 'Byabshayi', they were barely five-six years old, and it was a group comprising those in their mid-teens to late teens/early 20s that played, including the sibling, on a huge bed in the upper-floor of that house, for hours, through prolonged power-cuts in the evenings when oil lamps and candles were brought in. 

Antara and Foochoo either sat around watching 'Byabshayi' being played or they took playing cards to a different room and played Beating the Donkey/gadha-petapeti with each other.

Had the original version of Monopoly been played, it would have the likeness of German-born American investment banker Otto Hermann Kahn (1867-1934), who was apparently called the 'King of New York' and reorganised/consolidated the railroads. 

However, in 'Byabshayi', Otto Hermann Kahn was not depicted.

Those playing 'Byabshayi' on that large bed was what we called 'NS Road', they were part of a Bengali attempt, if it had neither the support of Otto Kahn nor the railroads, whose support did NS Road have?

It was one of the reasons the NS Road wives had been mentioned in a previous 'Class Act' blogpost (May 14, 2026). 

The elder NS Road wife was there 1985 onwards and would often quit these games halfway to get her special 'muri-makha', puffed rice, mustard oil, fried potatoes, "my specialty was the fried potatoes, which no one else added to the 'muri-makha'," she'd say.

At least it acknowledged that "those of you who had quit the legit lease had done so because of the drubbing the Democrats received, Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro, Mondale won his home state Minnesota and Washington DC, Reagan and George HW Bush took everything else".

It was not about AAP in 2015 but that Democrats had lost back-to-back, 1980 and 1984, "you have assumed a White House crisis and switched loyalties to Kolkata".

If the above was known to Indians, who had accused Brabourne Junior College dorm and higher US military for a complicated collapse as that of the Barings Bank in 1995?

It was obvious the accusing individual disliked Germans or their 20th century involvement in the two World Wars but with the focus on the Bakhmut lease, that individual also disliked the 1898 visit of Kaiser Wilhelm II to Jerusalem.

Almost every allusion pointed to a moviemaking family, apparently known for arson-related skills from the 1930s, an allegation that it needed to go past, for which it had needed a powerful marriage between a Bengali man and a supposed banking heiress in a western country.

Sir Francis Baring founded Barings Bank in 1762. His older brother John Baring was a 'silent partner'. They had decided that Sir Francis Baring would tackle the information on tropical diseases that the British East India Company collected from Asian and African countries.

John Baring would keep his focus on the activities of the Austrian Empire.

Thus, it was impossible that Barings Bank was not aware of the nitty-gritty of the lease document as it existed in the 1780s, after American independence.

Kolkata had severe problems but was still pursuing the lease politics.

May 18, 2026.

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BT answers. (If you were at Evian-les-Bains, or part of the AAP backup team at Covasna, Romania.)

Worthies told each other, "So that was what Brabourne was like before the 'silting' action."

The worthies suspected Indian men, those that paid scant attention to the Treasury, and had complicated patience with Indian females.

As usual, the motor-boats and steamships were ignored, including within India. It was as if they didn't exist.

Why would the latter seem more likely? 

These young women were situated within a context, "the 1980s and 1990s, leading to 2001-2003". 

Suddenly taking them to the 1930s context would mean disaster for some (Antara included) and confusion and being directionless for the others.

If you drove any vehicle, including a motor-boat, you must have context and direction.

You were asking what happened to the focused academic pursuit? 

Oh, that was for the visitors, if these ever turned up, to confirm certain historical realities, which were accepted till the other day. 

Brabourne Hostel had two large adjoining Visitors' Rooms, long dark brown tables with accompanying chairs. 

Visiting hours were from 4.30 pm to 6 pm on weekdays. 

Once the visitors had left, there were enough young women who took their textbooks, notebooks, instruments down to the Visitors' Room and studied there. Large, tall windows on all sides, well-ventilated as well.

Ever flew on an aeroplane, the young woman who had mentored Antara for a while (for English Honours) had asked her.

Antara had replied she hadn't done so.

"The rivers of northern India, especially the Ganges, it looked amazing, like a narrow thread."

Those who had flown in aeroplanes would know that the rivers were not visible because of the cloud cover beneath the aircraft. 

There was no information with the females, they thought the imminent attack on American capitalism (the one on Sept 11, 2001) was responsible for it. 

Hence they took to the Visitors' Room.

No one seemed so forlorn or despondent within Brabourne Hostel?

The college offered discounts on railway travel during vacations, it was announced on the bulletin board, you had to fill in a form with the photocopy of the railway ticket, you'd be reimbursed after the vacation.

That one was beginning to look like an awfully prolonged vacation, and there was no college/institution that maintained a relationship with railroads.

Antara managed on behalf of Brabourne for a while after the 9/11 attacks, from 2001-2005. 

She bought an Indian Railways guide, memorised the names of the trains, the railways maps and routes, stations and their stoppage times. 

Without her narrative, it was her first understanding of the Nazi Holocaust imagery.

"If we visited the sibling (then in northern Karnataka), we'd have to travel through central India, Ajit might fall sick during the journey. Once we reached Mumbai CST, in the morning, we'd have to wait through the day till the late-evening/overnight Konkan Railway connecting train to northern Karnataka. 

A partially-blind old pensioner and his just grown-up university graduate daughter, sitting at Mumbai CST, through the day," Antara had told her parents.

Why the Nazi Holocaust was difficult to prevent from Purulia, India.

What was that with the toilet rolls? 

These Indians had heard of Bengalis settled in the Bay Area of California, in the 1990s, that wanted a West Bengal-based Treasury. They must have got a scare, the same girl got a mountain bicycle to the Brabourne Hostel Junior College dorm, kept it leaning against her bed, she pushed it to college in the morning, then bicycled round the Brabourne campus.

Why were we progressing in a way that seemed hostile to the West Bengal Govt?

Antara had waited for decades to "create the atmosphere" of where she grew up, her parents were not interested, her spouse didn't even know her nickname nor showed any interest in her life, colleagues were only interested in humiliating her, Delhi thought she was shy about provocative clothes.

"I come from a different place" was the reason for the blogposts, once she saw how the NRIs were using that argument within the United States.

If particular needs became apparent, software companies could devise apps out of it, for services, provisions etc. 

Antara had been left in the lurch by western Europeans, especially Germans, she might use a service provider just to discuss matters important to her. It would take a while though, that service provider couldn't be prevented from meeting her, given her previous existence was lost to her.

You've put her on a Chinese blacklist because of her opposition to Soviet KI?

Antara solved the German lease, what it meant for tech professionals etc, and how it connected to cricket and the Bombay Tournament.

What was Bombay Tournament doing in 1927 though?

Why did it have to take shelter with the British?

The US military was crowded with lease supporters, hence? After all that planning using cricket matches?

Next time, take shelter with China?

May 15, 2026.

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Ball game, ball room, ball dance

Several girls, all Antara's batchmates, they stayed together at Brabourne Junior College dorm, in the 1990s, had admitted to trying infant food, alongside their daily meals.

It had surprised Antara, she didn't remember the taste of the ready infant food mixes available in the market.

"Oh, it was very tasty" and then they went on to describe how they sourced it, from their younger siblings, nephews or nieces, so many of them were having 'Cerelac' while enrolled at Junior College for Arts or Sciences.

At home, Antara asked Anjali if it was something she'd heard of. "What kind of talk was that, it was not meant for grown humans, in any case, you and your sibling grew up on 'Lactogen', 'Cerelac' had not been introduced in the market."

Antara began to research, she noticed a variety of 'Cerelac' packets at NS Road, her nieces were quite young, she asked the NS Road wives, they tended to prefer 'apple flavour' but when Antara noted down the names of the other 'Cerelac' flavours at the chemists', she found the recipes were getting complicated, there were 'apples with bananas and some oats powder'. 

Yet NS Road was correct, most of the customers asked for 'apple', till Antara had to intervene, "Don't the salty ones sell at all?" 

"It was weird," she was told, "why introduce salt at such a young age?"

Thus, beyond Brabourne Junior College dorm, there seemed to be lurking an unknown group that knew about 'apples' and 'saltair'. Could it be the beginning of solving the mystery around Antara's childhood?

Why had you assumed it would be about who had mentored Antara? The names of the mentors had been circulated in 2021. 

What else was needed, lies, deceit, spinmeistering? 

From the BTV sorts? 

The ones who decided the admission procedure for Brabourne Junior College, "best of five", then everyone would assume European backing. There were no Europeans in the list that was circulated.

Even the list of adversaries was known within Brabourne Junior College dorm. 

A statistician, a physicist with an institute named after him in India, a huge group of unnamed Soviets.

However, that Europeans were to be somehow pointed out and accused was clear within Brabourne Junior College dorm. 

A wealthy student from a neighbouring SAARC country used toilet rolls. A feisty girl--her dorm bed was one apart from Antara--had screamed, "Did you see that Antara? Did you? What was the Bengali term for a toilet roll? It didn't exist, we have to invent it, let's call it 'hagoj'."

It often got tense inside the Brabourne Junior College dorm, like that.

You shouldn't worry about railroad interests within Brabourne Junior College dorm. There was stratification, those who used Howrah Station as well as its faster, expensive trains were the elite. 

However, there were others who needed flights, the ones from the Sunderbans needed boats for reaching home.

Just conversation starters, if you knew that the guy who managed the motor-boats in the Sunderbans was called the 'sareng', they accepted the likes of Antara, Treasury didn't become an intimidating factor.

But it was a secluded zone, you were right about it, somewhat like a cruise ship, and given U-Boat agents, German but not U-Boat agents and Turkish-Sudan were making plans for the future, one cruise ship could not be a threat, it was an exaggeration. 

Then leave apart those from Turkish-Sudan, why did you take the other dorm girls to the US?

"I woke up daily at 4.30 am, I turned on my light, the one above my bed, it was the only light in the dorm, the rest of you were sleeping, I ended up identifying that one Agency honcho could cause another Holocaust."

Should Antara believe the above?

Or should Antara tell her, 

"No, you've got it wrong, it was a World Cup cricket match between India and Sri Lanka, from 1996, India was losing to Sri Lanka, the Kolkata crowd went berserk that it was a 'got-up game', Brabourne (watching the TV in the hostel dining room) was overjoyed that Kolkata had protested, but at college the next day, north Kolkata showed its displeasure at Kolkata, 'That's no way to behave, merely because you were losing, where was the sporting spirit?'"

You wanted to discuss the 'sport' with Antara?

Antara had wanted to research the Nazi Holocaust, in different ways, we all wanted the exact same thing?

Thus, Antara was never a factor in any of the above. Kolkata protested a got-up game, India lost and all her Brabourne batchmates were chosen for US assignments.

Something else was showing within that extra ballroom in the premises.

No, we were not discussing operatives of elite Washington DC establishments.

More Mumbai Chowpatty.

And Mumbai socialites.

Yes!! Monaco!!!

Monaco-r mojadar bhelki!!

'An entertaining miracle from Monaco', the torture-surveillance being the entertainment.

Noida was upset that despite her performing stretches on the dorm bed at Brabourne Junior College, where were the joint exercises, oh, where were they?

Antara could add, "Was Monaco-ji preventing them?"

May 14, 2026.

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A war comes to an end

 Antara had no idea that Indians felt so strongly about Coca Cola.

There were storms everywhere!

Antara never had soft drinks in her childhood.

"Why must you always be weird," Anjali would tell her, "Look at the rest of them gulping down their Gold Spots and Limcas."

There were two, maybe three occasions when a soft drink (in a glass bottle) was bought for Antara, with a plastic straw pipe to drink with. In all instances, Antara had a sip, then went looking for Anjali to return it to her.

Thus, Antara had no fascination for soft drinks till 2021, once the pandemic was over. 

Could you relate to such a person?

Then the tales about who was Asa Griggs and whether his son travelled to China as a magician and whether there were 'magic tricks' performed at home and who reshaped 'candles' to forge a new identity and whether Supriya Paul stared at a 'candle' through a thunderstorm were irrelevant.

Antara didn't need soft drinks, she wouldn't discuss them.

As with soft drinks, people in India believed that western militaries preferred coeducational institutions to share Bureau information.

Antara studied at a school that had boys in the primary classes. Except one or two of them, she barely spoke with the others, they were so rough and rowdy. 

When Antara opted for Brabourne for undergraduate studies (despite the option of studying at co-ed colleges in Kolkata and Purulia), the Purulia townspeople had been surprised, they had told the sibling, "She prefers women's colleges?"

Antara never understood people who were filled with wrong information, presumptions, did they not know Antara at all?

In 1995, during Brabourne Junior College, the college was hosting its annual fest, it was probably called 'Kaleidoscope' for shattered glass, 'kaleidoscope' was probably the sibling's favourite scientific instrument as well. 

Antara was entering the college on fest day, when she saw the western part of the campus filled with young men, she was by herself, they seemed aggressive and turned to look at her.

Antara had fled towards the opposite side, surely it implied that if you studied at a co-ed college, all you'd get were agents of the German U-Boats who destroyed Britain's trading ships in the Western Approaches during the World Wars.

There were no all-women universities, Antara had thought to herself.

Was it a good thing, what happened at Jadavpur University, between 2000 and 2002, remembered only for the 9/11 attacks?

Who was to say U-Boat agents against Western Approaches were not at Jadavpur? 

Did we know if the 9/11 attacks were also against Britain or not?

Of course, given the somewhat dubious quality prevalent in the Indian newsrooms, Antara didn't realise that western 'economists' had introduced the 'sizar' system within the newsrooms.

Antara was treated well within the Kolkata reporting office because of the political ideology of the bosses. On the day she had joined, the office manager had shown her to the workstation and told her, "pens, notepads, staplers etc" were being sent her way. 

By the time Antara entered a New Delhi newsroom, she was immediately demoted several ranks, given she had studied journalism with a fee waiver. She was supposed to serve her colleagues, fetch their food and drinks and printouts. How was Antara 'sizar' compared to them, neither had they attended ACJ nor any other journalism school? 

"What you have studied, your work experience, what stories you have done, nothing mattered in this newsroom...", Antara was told.

So it was a 'sizar' newsroom. It had only waited for Antara. When Antara resigned in 2010, its purpose was over. 

Maybe Asa Griggs Candler could see us through such a bizarre crisis?

No?

Countries that stayed away from WWII, fought their own Civil War and tired themselves out, stayed huddled with a former Kaiser and an abdicated monarch would come to the rescue?

Former Kaiser+abdicated monarch+country where they threw chicken bones on the floor=/equals famous soft drink.

It didn't sound impressive, you know, one could survive without soft drinks and abdicated monarchs.

No, of course you were not done.

You were a railway company, then you were that railway company hidden in Myanmar, then you were in Washington DC trying to ruin all other railroad interests in the world.

There you were, swollen with sleep, climbing down from the upper berth, "They were announcing another train, what if it hit us from behind?"

Do not worry. The train behind you wouldn't hit you at all. 

From 2021 onwards, it took a while to catch up with the monstrosity of what Antara had lived through, the 1980s, the 1990s, the noughts.

What an outrageous trap, a set-up, there were aunts visiting, asking after the family deity/Narayan Shila aka Damodar Chandra, you'd try to solve it in terms of Infosys or some celebrity. 

Would you realise that the aunts and Anjali were discussing a rock band, called 'Sly and the Family Stone'? It was apparently the 'deity', a group of rock musicians familiar with Franco's Spain?

What did those like 'Sly and the Family Stone' apparently believe? It was vicious abuse of the Austrian Habsburgs, that Austria was merely a part of the Ottoman Empire, you had to create the pressure before Austrians admitted to their Islamic cuisine and culture, no amount of pressure was enough when it came to the Austrians, that Austrians had emigrated from Sudan in Africa.

Then why get so furious and stormy, if every one of us was from Sudan?

You didn't even know what was so-and-so party?

For that party, personal computers had to be introduced, the extremely high cost of infotech borne by corporations across the world. Else, centralised computers could have managed these tasks, how exactly do we use the personal processor provided to us? We didn't, hence.

All of you had vaults at top banks to store your RMS Titanic information?

If you had stopped shuddering, the Mykolaiv family was not that different from the Asansol one. 

The Mykolaiv family's narratives about itself were elaborate and untrue.

May 13, 2026.

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Because of Belarus

Where was Antara disliked by a greater number of people, in Asansol or Purulia?

Right now, Purulia was apparently winning when it came to its dislike for Antara.

"It was nothing but penance for how Purulia had behaved when it came to the Sapphire matter and Coca Cola. Back in the late 1990s, Purulia was offering huge discounts on Coca Cola bottles, Ajit kept having these for weeks when he went for his evening walks, he ended up with an upset stomach. Anjali might have suspected that Ajit became careful about Turkish-Sudan following the incident."

Ajit was frequently harassed within Purulia in those years he spent there after his retirement. He used to dye his hair, when the gloss went away after a few days, it turned reddish, young boys would run after his scooter, "Look at his hair, either his head was on fire or he has put red mahdi on it." (Mahdists was also a Turkish-Sudan reference, this was around 2003-04.)

It shouldn't mean Antara would have to pay the price for such information. She researched on her own, if it yielded Turkish-Sudan information, she used it, she didn't use the information from Purulia that Ajit had with him.

And why did Purulia want to know whether Antara was aware if the Vanderbilts financed the Adolf Hitler Schulen (Adolf Hitler Schools) in Nazi Germany? The Vanderbilt side had blocked Antara's email id. In any case, Antara couldn't ask them whether they paid illicit donations to the Nazis or not. 

There was an interesting comic story from Bengal, a man had been punished by the local king, he had been asked to spend the night atop a tall metal pole, called 'shool' in Bengali. He somehow survived the night, only to find out it was unacceptable as punishment, he had cheated, there was a small fire burning at the base of the pole, it kept him warm through the winter's night, provided hope and optimism. So there'd be a repeat of the punishment. 

Maybe the Vanderbilt sum (if true) was negligible, why depend on them for your economic recovery?

The former POTUSes were apparently seeking the protection of their favourite Chicago law firms when it came to what they had done to Britain. The way to deal with the situation was to use the British intelligence side of it, thereby avoiding the Chicago legal community. 

How would you accuse the Chicago law firms? 

That they provided full legal coverage to men and women of Antara's generation that wanted to visit American cities? That it had been suggested around 1988 by one of Antara's classmates, who had bought a Miner's Safety Lamp to class? Later, they had read poems about 'gallants'? We had to accept the fact that the former POTUSes had made extraordinary legal arrangements for Indian men and women in the US, surely there was a requirement for such legal coverage?

A 'sizar' was an undergraduate at Irish or British educational institutions who either paid lower fees or got assistance for meals and lodging. Around 1993, when Antara was in Class 9, a senior girl (Class 10) had come up to her and asked, "Have a (pair of) scissors?" 

"I've got Julius Caesar," Antara had said, pointing at what she was reading. They had both laughed, and the girl went away. 

Antara didn't get lodging or meals assistance at ACJ but she got fees waiver, so "go get a 'sizar' and see what kind of Communism erupted across the world" was advice that had come from within Asansol AG Church.

All of us would wonder that what began so well--Purulia's understanding of the dangers of Turkish-Sudan or an Asansol AG girl's suggestion to use a 'sizar'--seemed to have led nowhere, except uncontrolled frenzy. 

Apparently, it was because no one really understood Anjali, how she had been mentored and from where, what happened if you were born five months before the July 20 1944 Adolf Hitler assassination plot, and if the consequences were a spate of 'suicides' of the conspirators, what did it imply for the so-called 'upper-strata' of the US Navy?

Did it make those 'conspirators' supporters of the Allies? Were they good people? Should we take their 'opposition' to Hitler for granted? Why didn't they oppose Hitler in March 1942, when most of European Jewry were still around?

You want to rush to HT and ACJ for help? Did you have any idea how much they feared Antara because of July 20 1944 and its consequences?

"Hmm, Sethi has joined, just a year senior to us at ACJ, earning Rs 80,000 per month at HT" was one of the first things Antara heard from a former ACJ batchmate when she joined HT.

Sethi, his 80,000 and dense, dark stormy skies was all there was to it, what further help could HT provide?

In constantly accessing HT and ACJ for information against Antara, you destroyed the networks, in Asansol and Purulia and elsewhere, what helped people lead their lives, undisturbed by Communism.

You called CPM Communist, you called TMC even more Communist than CPM, you don't even know how to describe the BJP. If you didn't know what you wanted, who could help you?

How did Antara manage hundreds of desks, in India? It was about paying attention to the economy and polity of the 1980s and 1990s, so one could understand which one was the illicit economy. Of course, even illicit economy Antara had to understand, so it was about finding what one needed to learn.

Because of Belarus, Antara stayed away from social media since 2015, which considerably helped.

You were NOT going to use Spain and Fleece for the land corridor. BJP or INC or other political formations was not an excuse.

May 12, 2026

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The reality was often about the stars

Antara's journey to New Delhi was a complicated one.

Most of her relatives were trusted by the British or so it seemed in the present day.

During weekends, Anjali would give her raw vegetables to eat, as a snack between breakfast and lunch, while Antara was studying or completing her weekend homework.

Typically, it consisted of a tomato, some sliced carrots and green peas.

The green peas apparently referred to an English astronomer, called George Airy, he was quite the favourite in the schools of West Bengal, 'Kasam yaari ki/Airy ki' meant "I promise/swear by George Airy".

George Airy was born in 1801. While at school, he had invented the 'peashooter', a tube for releasing projectiles like dried peas. It would seem Anjali was asking, "So what was the purpose of the prolonged stay in Asansol, surely not for pea-shooting?"

Almost by chance, though Antara never played with glass marbles, a couple of these ended up with her. Antara preserved these, she couldn't remember who had given these glass marbles to her, she took them out and admired them but you couldn't play with glass marbles by yourself.

Ajit had apparently been a champion marbles player in his childhood but he wouldn't agree to play with Antara.

By the time Antara was working as a news reporter in the BBD Bagh area of Kolkata, she'd occasionally have the lime soda, on warm days, from a kiosk next to her workplace.

She had jumped when she heard a familiar voice one day, "What were you doing, all of Dalhousie drank out of that glass?" 

Antara had turned to find her spouse headed to his workplace, he had shouted out at her, suggesting a paper cup rather than the tall glasses of lime soda.

We knew that silica and lime soda (in solid granules) were used to lend colour to glass marbles, thus she couldn't be based in Kolkata's BBD Bagh area, where everyone had already had their fun and entertainment with glass marbles. 

Hence, Antara came to New Delhi, Anjali and her spouse used to talk to each other a lot in those days, probably some unfinished agenda of astronomer George Airy.

Anjali's motives were not difficult to find. 

In Asansol, the railways meant little except as a source of information, the railway station apparently divided the town along religious lines but it actually helped hide the fact that Asansol was close to the Bangladeshis, that Asansol frequently used their help.

At home, Anjali showed a lack of tolerance for Bangladeshis, calling them 'Germans', Antara imbibed it and shared it with her then bf, later spouse. 

"They didn't tell her that Asansol was close to Bangladeshis, Antara was not an important member of her family, I don't have to take this marriage seriously," the spouse might have thought to himself.

(Asansol had a neighbourhood called 'Railpar' or Railways Bank so its attitude towards railroads was quite forthright.)

Where did people get the courage for such forthright behaviour? 

Let's say that those who could possibly have protected Antara (from within Europe) had become known to the railways by the 1960s, the information went from Washington DC to San Francisco, where the Italian Navy agents cleared the information, then it went straight to Nepal, from there the plains of northern India, where Antara had relatives, many working in the railways.  

Thus, Antara was vulnerable to the hostile aspirations of Washington DC from before she was born, people were aggressive accordingly.

However, the above didn't explain the origin of several females who had positioned themselves as Antara's adversaries. Around 200 years ago, they had apparently witnessed European ferocity while based in Turkish Sudan. Could Europeans show such ferocity again?

The answer was 'no', Antara would advise against it, if some of the Turkish-Sudanese had also been recruited as US officials or were high office-holders, they might not like European ferocity. 

Thus, technological and computer-related developments helped Antara survive and grow up during the 1980s and 1990s. 

"Less use of Treasury instruments meant less relevance for Egypt and Sudan, there were no 19th century blackmails against the computers industry."

Going to Vietnam. Taking a cruise-ship ride. Someone locking the boy inside the bathroom. Crying and begging for help from the partying passengers. 

It summed up the situation, controlled by imposter bankers, on a US Navy ride, with Vietnam War blackmails, AAP all around.

Who was crying and begging for help?

Theresa? Boris? Liz? Rishi? Keir? Did they not like Astronomer Airy?

May 11, 2026.

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If we went to China for the Great Game, where would the Berlusconi side go?

Antara's first stint in journalism, the Kolkata reporting office, was located at the Central Business District of the city.

Before India's independence, it was referred to as 'Dalhousie', probably after Lord Dalhousie.  

After independence from British rule, colonial legacies were mostly discarded, names of neighbourhoods and streets/roads were often changed.

What was Dalhousie became known after three Bengali revolutionaries, they had once fought against British officials within the Secretariat located in that area, called Writers' Building.

These Bengali revolutionaries were called Benoy-Badal-Dinesh, hence the business district came to be known after them, called BBD Bagh.

The stances of Benoy-Badal-Dinesh on the legit lease was never discussed. 

Of course, if you were an NRI and close to Indian royals' interest groups, you might have access to what Benoy-Badal-Dinesh actually wanted of the British officials.

Antara remembered visiting Kolkata in December 1987, waiting with her mother and sibling outside the Writers' Building as Ajit got accommodation reserved, till she felt tired and Anjali propped her up on the railing on the pavement. 

"Look, there's the statue of Benoy-Badal-Dinesh, look at all those trees next to it, batabi-lebu (a kind of citrus fruit), useful for Durga Pujo." It was warm for a winter's day, earlier at Howrah Station, Antara had got rid of the black leggings she wore beneath her frock, "No, my legs wouldn't be cold," she had told Anjali.

Later, when she was a news reporter, working at the BBD Bagh area of Kolkata, she found that except those employed at Dalhousie's offices, no other Kolkatan ever willingly visited the BBD Bagh area. 

The newsrooms and reporting offices didn't close during Durga Pujo and that was when BBD Bagh turned into a delightful place, the Durga Pujos of 2006 and 2007. Other offices would be shut, there was not a hint of Durga Pujo in the BBD Bagh area, the few buses running would be almost empty, the business district, largely shuttered, but to oneself. 

If Antara had the Central Business District to herself (though shuttered), why couldn't the allusions bring it back to life?

Why did the British Govt's high officials have to enact pandemic violations, in that ultimate show of loyalty to Beijing, and then disappear into the night?

The reason was known to most of the blog readers. 

During their hiding days in Amsterdam, Anne Frank had to betray most of the intelligence services used by railroad companies in her diary entries. It was the reason her diary was found intact, confiscated, published, why Anne Frank was remembered at all, so that those Communists who wanted these allusions solved, from any part of the world, could easily access her diary. 

If Communists had already solved Anne Frank's diary by the 1970s-80s (why the CPM could risk coming to power in West Bengal of the late 1970s), how did Antara manage to study journalism or get employed, that too in Kolkata's BBD Bagh area?

One possibility was that the BBD Bagh area had come under the influence and control of the tech tycoons, soon after the 9/11 attacks, they had sufficient RMS Titanic information as well.

Compare the names of the San Francisco (California) neighbourhoods and the area around Antara's reporting office in the BBD Bagh area:

i.  San Francisco's Financial District. Same as in Kolkata's BBD Bagh area.

ii. San Francisco's Financial District was adjacent to Chinatown. Chinese restaurants, one after the other, where Antara's reporting office was located in Kolkata's BBD Bagh area.

iii. San Francisco's Russian Hill close by. Another prominent Bengali media empire's office, close to Antara's reporting office.

iv. All of it was 'Little Italy' in San Francisco.  There were management institutes in the BBD Bagh area, where one of the girls from Antara's Paying Guest used to study during the 9/11 attacks, a Great Game enthusiast, she laughed at Waterloo Street and thereby the Battle of Waterloo (1815), "water from the loo, hopefully not on my head?"

Sometimes, wait before planning those China vacations.

Should we discuss the upcoming China trip of Donald Trump as a hostile gesture? 

If the railroad companies had an upper-hand, would they be able to take the Berlusconi-Peshawar-Great Game side on a vacation against their wishes? 

Would the Berlusconi side agree to meet people they didn't like?

Let Antara provide an example of how these things worked with the Peshawar crowd.

Antara had gone for a reporting assignment to Netaji Bhavan on Elgin Road in Kolkata in December 2007. By the time the speeches etc were over and Antara was about to leave, Benazir Bhutto had already been killed.

Why didn't Benazir Bhutto go on a vacation or walking trip to the Wilmington, Delaware region, it would remind her of Della and 1984, so many Delaware families had worked on the atom bomb project, or had been suppliers, surely Benazir Bhutto would have found it less aggressive than Beijing?

If it was a game of whether the Communists would end Antara's blog or Antara would keep writing it, the latter would happen, Antara would prevail. 

"Too many Russians willing to talk about the Eastern Front (WWII) created Pakistan, don't harass Antara's relatives over it."

Thus, the legit lease had won, we didn't have to force the US officials to travel to Beijing, it was our turn, which destinations would the Berlusconi side want to visit?

What was left to be solved? The Iran War?

During WWII, the Allied side bombed the oil refineries and ball-bearing factories of the Nazis. It led to an interesting incident in the 1980s. During a visit to Purulia, Ajit had forgotten to switch off the ceiling fan when he was leaving, the ball-bearings heated and exploded, the oil and lubricants were all over the ceiling.

Have a chat with the Special Ops people. They ought to know how to end the Iran War.

May 8, 2026.

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Who wasn't afraid of the Morgans?

Antara was afraid of the Morgans as much as anyone else.

If you remembered her anecdote about going home from the Kolkata reporting office, how she'd start walking towards the BBD Bagh bus terminus once her work got over, well, she could have gone towards the Esplanade Metro Station as well, in 2006 it was the site of a prolonged political fasting.

But the former Clearing Houses occupied the corner realty spots, Antara didn't have her narrative, the Clearing Houses and corners looked forbidding at the late evening hour, so she went towards the bus terminus instead.

Thus, writing about railroad companies was not about 'history lessons that could prove useful' but requesting that the Morgans bring Antara up at a Clearing House, probably DTCC (the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation) that cleared the US equities trade. 

Antara had also been provided an understanding of where she stood with the Morgans.

The overnight train that she used for going home (Kolkata/Howrah to Purulia), in the late 1990s, would often be delayed, it was a problem because the train was supposed to leave around 10.30 pm, delays meant it got rather late. 

Soon, even the mighty Howrah Station would be empty, only the passengers of the Purulia train waiting drowsily, most spread newspapers on the railway platform and sat on them, as did Antara and Ajit. 

One of those times, Antara had bought a back issue of 'National Geographic', it was the RMS Titanic cover, she sat on the railway platform reading it, occasionally explaining the 'collision' to her father, "They're saying that had it hit headlong, then there'd be less surface area and hence less damage, why did it turn?" as Ajit listened.

Around 11.40 pm, the Jodhpur Express would leave Howrah, so the Supriya Paul team would be ahead of Antara was known from the late 1990s, there was no suddenness about it.

Around midnight, as the lights were turned off and Howrah Station was submerged in darkness, the Purulia passengers protested, "We have no train and no lights either?"

Hence a railroad-discussing blog, people have all kinds of needs.

As for the criticism of certain individuals in Class Act blogpost of May 6, 2026 ('There went the Morgans'), they've all been close to Antara, and had been identified to certain authorities as performing 'convoy escort duties' (as in the Navy during wartime), 

"Why, so that Antara didn't make any mistake, given she didn't have her narrative? Without mistakes how would she learn?"

That was from an Asansol schoolteacher. For her wise observations, she immigrated and settled in the United States. 

Antara was left by herself, to learn from her mistakes, but who would she teach, in her turn? 

Indians wouldn't learn from her and her own people were no longer around. 

Was 'without mistakes how would she learn' another kind of H1B visa?

SFTD/Story For The Day was about keeping Antara in Kolkata city, no matter what.

Antara's instructions from Chennai were to submit an occasional feature story, keep travelling across West Bengal for days, if not weeks. 

Once she had joined the reporting office in Kolkata, the local female reporters (different publications) encouraged the idea, "Go from one West Bengal town to another, those budget hotels and inns were such a thrill, do your reporting, then settle down with a beer at the hotel etc."

Antara grew up in the Bengal districts and the possibility of staying in a shabby hotel, probably close to where her parents stayed, alone and drinking, was revolting for her. 

Hence, SFTD/Story For The Day, "Well, you couldn't go anywhere, how would you submit the SFTD?" the departmental head had told her.

Once these excursions into West Bengal districts were ruled out, why had they been suggested in the first place? 

What would have yielded had Antara constantly travelled across West Bengal? 

Who'd be providing the answer, the 'Titanic' movie director or Ms Shipley and her cronies in New Zealand?

It was unlikely that Antara was afraid of the challenges coming to the lease from New Zealand.

In any online game with multiple players, Antara had two fears, "So I'd be surveilled and I didn't even know whether I was playing against machines."

For Antara, it was the Classic Lubna Scare, it came from Ukraine, why could Ukrainians freeze the Donetsk-Luhansk region to gather advanced information about assignments and allusions, thereby coming prepared?

ACJ ought to rest easy. The Classic Lubna Scare was so fierce in Antara, she didn't even consider looking for jobs, despite the financial squeeze enforced by the spouse since summer 2025.

As of now, we were not criticising Indians. 

They were thoughtful people when it came to the Kaplan education business of WaPo.

How often did Antara venture out alone? At any hour of the day, they put young boys coming from private coaching/private tutors, "Kaplan education business would get you when you were alone".

It had proved useful, so Antara was allowed to share what NS Road topics she worked on, all chosen by her, Antara feared her relatives, she never looked down upon them.

May 7, 2026.

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There went the Morgans

The blogs could challenge the Russians because of the railroad services and information that the latter had once sourced from railroad companies.

The Russians owed many favours, no one went to Russia to settle those favours. In fact, most corporations were quite thankful for the muddled White House activities once Russia invaded Ukraine and western firms could leave Russia.

The excuse that one could use a pen to write a love note as well as a death verdict (we were discussing railway usage during the Nazi Holocaust transportation) was lost when the then friend/later bf/now spouse lent his notebook to Antara during Postgrad 1 at Jadavpur University, in 2000. 

Antara had missed a few classes and wanted to catch up, she found the last page of the notebook had a love poem, seemingly meant for her.

There went the Morgans, everyone understood.

That railway services had been used in the vilest way, during humanity's most wretched moment, against that we were being offered BoB/Base Office Berlin.

Antara wouldn't have gotten interested in the guy but that poem somehow changed her.

To Anjali's later inquiries, Antara had said, "I was always travelling on trains, sitting for seven-eight-nine hours on the same seat, hardly any food, that chap's family was based closer to Kolkata, in case I had to work there."

Anjali never discussed the matter further.

There were individuals like Antara, what they wouldn't do for railroad companies!

Why didn't Antara ask her parents to move to Kolkata suburbs, if the city was too expensive for a retired couple like Ajit-Anjali?

Why did she consider Ajit as "lacking the courage to assess danger levels",

Anjali as "always the rank outsider despite excellent information",

and the sibling "whose potential would never be available to me"?

The 'minders' had felt that 'set patterns' had been imposed on them by Global Communists, even when it didn't serve them. 

Antara had understood that the central problem, the White House, couldn't be reinvented, much like the proverbial wheel, no matter how Chinese-influenced it had become. 

So Antara took a chance in 2000, could anyone in the world (in the present day) say that fresh, new beginnings didn't take place in their lives in the last two decades? 

That made the likes of Antara different, their quiet ability to change everyone's lives for the better.

Antara's ability to create these changes had no effect on anyone around her.

Antara couldn't believe that her best friend in school wouldn't study Arts or Commerce, what had indicated that she was a computer whiz in a school that had no computers till the Class of 1995 completed high school?

The sibling wanted mean and conspiring small towns, then why did she create such a frantic and explosive environment at home, only to be a married wife in other small towns?

The Alamo Girl wanted an arranged marriage with a physician, then why be friends with Antara? Why scream, "Liberty, liberty" and run down the streets around Park Circus when the Monsoon Girl was away for a few days? "Wow, gulping down the fresh air", the Alamo Girl had said, because the Monsoon Girl as a hostel mate was so restrictive?

And the Paying Guest girls, over the two decades after 9/11, it didn't occur to you that you ought to have elaborate FB/social media profiles, replete with photos, so that when Antara got isolated from 2015, you could see her through? You still didn't understand what you meant to the world, just transacting through that pattern/UPI and exchanging Whatsapp messages, that's all you had ever desired?

We were criticising because the above-mentioned were successful people. 

There was no proof that any Agency favourite in the US or her career had adversely affected them. 

They were not fearful, they didn't encounter any crisis that made them reach out to Antara. 

They were different from the 'minders', who were stricken with challenges, trying to preserve the semblance of an 'order', let alone a global order.

No one liked disorder or anarchy, how would you earn a living, complete your tasks? 

They used the allusions and blogs, Antara didn't have time for writing Turkish obituaries, the sinking of the RMS Titanic created a Communism that couldn't run amok, without safeguards.

Thus, if Antara's relatives and acquaintances had not faced any severity from the Agency, they had received information regarding her from November 2012 to February 2013. 

It had implied that score-settling was to be attempted about NSDAP war criminals who were hanged at Nuremberg. 

With such an argument they agreed, which meant they either agreed that 

i. NSDAP honchos were not war criminals,

ii. or NSDAP honchos should have gotten away despite being war criminals,

iii. and a girl like Antara would be punished for an international military tribunal from the late-1940s.

This was official, the stance of Antara's relatives and acquaintances when it came to the Nuremberg Trials, it wouldn't change.

There was hardly any WWII family in the United States that didn't change its name or identity as the decades passed, such was the shame and humiliation they faced from the Communist troublemakers.

Most of them returned to the US military during the War on Terror, why didn't you figure out their WWII identities and histories instead of worrying how others spend their time?

May 6, 2026.

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