Whose US was it? (Strobe lights)

 "At their time of need, the 'baap' got the money he needed, as did the 'beti' when she needed it."

After the above, one should ask, why did the 'giver' always have funds to spare? 

The 'baap' was not getting his pension after almost four decades of govt service, why? 

The 'beti' was apparently bringing out the "best HT product ever", why was her salary stopped by Payroll while other employees were paid?

So we were not being allowed to argue. The 'better half' was already vlogging, because NRI wives "wanted to see Germans on a leash, dancing to their tunes".

Guess what? Today, June 30, 2026, 'baap' and 'beti' were repaying. Take London Station, it was all yours.

'Beti' would catch you up. For a while, London Station had been looking at MH-370 disappearance, you know, when the plane went off and was never seen again, March 8, 2014, on International Women's Day?

'Beti' alerted London Station about the 1994 picnic/visit to Durgapur's Kumarmangalam Park. When you refused to get off the car, didn't talk to 'baap' and his wife, they went for a walk around the spacious park, you sat in the car and had the packed luchi-aloor dum lunch that was brought from home. 

Now 'beti' sat with you and had the same lunch, 'beti' didn't go off with her parents, 'beti' missed the visit to the park. 

For you, surely you, all of 21 years of age, couldn't be left by yourself, on a wintry day, at a deserted parking lot. 

You didn't remember what others did for you. You don't know what would have happened if 'beti' had gone off with the parents and left you alone, maybe you would never get to be such an important person. 

But London Station wanted to know, if both had luchi-aloor dum, if both were meant to access DoD and financiers, why were you chosen and 'beti' forgotten? How did it help the Syrian Civil War?

Was it coincidence that there was a passenger from the Kumarmangalam family on MH-370, was it connected to the visit to Durgapur's Kumarmangalam Park in the 1990s?

Malaysia was just the starting point.

June 30, 2026.

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Whose US was it?

Given the stress levels before July 4, 2026, Antara was asked to avoid blogposts, check what privileges she had grabbed through her life and return them to those whose place she had forcibly taken till the Syrian Civil War (2012-2025) returned the 'correct balance within society'.

Antara would like to return Monalisa, Trina etc, they were her kindergarten classmates, their parents were either British-trained surgeons or taught medicine, Trina's mother headed the Anatomy department of a govt medical college. 

"It was the early 1980s, many families were on the run, unable to reside in West Bengal but with 'mushrooming' of engineering and management colleges since the British Houses were sold in the 1990s, these could no longer be Antara's friends, they had to be friends of successful people."

June 29, 2026.

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The Hungary court

1. Did Antara know about the political affiliations of Asansol AG batchmates?

No.

2. Did political discussions take place while at school?

It did, mostly related to news events, so relevant to what year/which class they were in.

3. Was there any coded way of discussing politics?

Yes, through lawn tennis. Steffi Graf was disliked, Gabriela Sabatini considered skillful and rugged, both these players had devoted supporters among Antara's batchmates.

4. What did Antara think?

Antara secretly liked Sabatini, she was publicly hesitant of those from Argentina. 

At the Housing society annual quiz contest in 1990, Antara had correctly answered the question about Steffi Graf's full name. However, her Asansol AG batchmates didn't know about it.

5. Did these batchmates ever desire to play lawn tennis?

They discussed tennis coaching centres, mostly located in Kolkata. 

Anjali disliked clay courts (as at the French Open etc), she thought "grass courts" was the real test, it would explain why any discussion of Asansol AG was becoming controversial.

6. And the sibling?

The sibling had only one obsession, if Ivan Lendl could win Wimbledon. She had heard that Lendl had apparently bought a castle, with several grass courts, to practice through the year.

Think of it, courting grass through the year!

7. Interesting. Of course, when we were discussing courts, the litfest would come to mind.

That was not a worry. A female editor from Delhi had warned Antara, "You and your spouse were behaving like students at the litfest, taking careful notes from the lectures". 

So JLF was not from Washington DC, it was something else.

8. The Churchill daughters?

Some kind of British admixture, while avoiding the ad-men of Madison Avenue.

9. Let's get this clear, Antara was not brooding over her parents who had passed away, nor the sibling she infrequently contacted.

"They taught me all I knew." They could've done more, probably.

10. And Lendl ought to have known that the attack on Monica Seles was not Hamburg (Germany) declaring it was ready for the 9/11 attacks against the US.

Anjali didn't like how Seles grunted when she served. 

"Was Seles in pain? Why was she playing?" Anjali would say.

It was power tennis, Antara used to reply, even the racquets were heavier.

11. Ulysses S Grant-Smith. Hungary. It was heavier than before. What had Kolkata done? What would happen to the batchmates?

They destroyed the Mir Space Station in March 2001, they were so sure, after the US military units that dealt in WWII passports had been shut down.

A space station, first of its kind, functioned from 1986 to 2001. 

If one somehow got a passport, even a WWII one, Kolkata would have to answer about Mir.

At least Kolkata would have to explain the purposes of JLF.

June 26, 2026.

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One vote: Replacing Russia at the UNSC

1. What kind of visits did Asansol AG organise for school students?

School visits were only for the sibling's batch. They were taken to a hydroelectric dam nearby, also to the manufacturing facility of a fabric whitener (Reckitt), located in Asansol's suburbs, the allusions had indicated that the latter was for indigo plantation reasons. 

Antara's batch was merely taken for a computer exhibition, it was an insult. They were already in Class 10, only a few months left for their high school days to end. They should have been offered Computer Science as a subject, which they weren't, and having denied it all, they went to a boys' school to learn computers from them.

2. Never any visit to any military exhibition, its parades and drills, its educational programmes?

No.

3. Antara didn't perceive it as strange because of her north Bengal days, where she spent her early childhood.

Yes, Antara's parents were full of anecdotes about fighter jets and recon helicopters. 

"So close to several international borders, such stress, I used to wonder that when you (Antara) were born, how would you be able to nap?" Anjali would say.

"But it was about getting used to things, even as a newborn, you slept peacefully as surveillance and recon helicopters created a racket 6 pm onwards, every evening, flying low over the locality."

There were several such anecdotes so Antara didn't feel the need for school-sponsored military discussions.

4. Why was Antara's batch treated differently?

It seemed they were considered close to railroads, so as much as could be taken away from them.

5. Why was Noida brought up for discussions?

It would have happened anyway. Both Antara and Noida were in Blue House, 1987 onwards, they were the best of Blue House, so to say, and spent considerable time together as a result, activities, House-based games etc. 

However, in the House election of 1991 (for Captain and Vice-Captain), Noida won, defeating Antara by one vote, otherwise Antara had always been Blue House Captain for her class. 

It was thereby assumed Noida would get some north Kolkata support but that's not the way the previous decade played out. 

6. And Antara knew it would be so?

Antara had consumed enough social media by 2016 to realise it was only about 'gully boyz' and 'north Kolkata boys'. 

Even when Sealdah railway station (in Kolkata) apparently got a swanky makeover, no north Kolkata person remarked on it.

7. These men would approach the lease only through hydrocarbons, railroads wouldn't be mentioned at all.

Yes, it was confirmed. 

They rode motorbikes and drove automobiles within city limits, they drove between cities in India as well, else they used aircrafts. 

"I try to avoid trains as much as possible," Antara had been told at HT.

June 25, 2026.

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Sea-faring worthy

 1. Tensions running high among Housing boys.

Yes, they apparently had valid stances, they were like Friends of the Reichsfuhrer etc but connected to the Bengali businessmen of Kolkata. Thus, crimes against Jews among both groups, why was it wrong to associate with Bengali businessmen?

2. Clever way to find out what would be the attacks/arguments.

Yes. One such example of attacks/arguments was provided. If you were merely part of Bengali business networks, why did you persecute/close down US military units that dealt with WWII identities and passports?

However, the response was prepared elsewhere, probably at the White House, it turned into non-stop torture against Antara. It was no longer an NSDAP scenario from which one could argue.

3. The Muller arrangement.

Yes, someone's told both of them that the English East India Company was on a leash, which implied past leases were on a leash as well.

So the Tories and their emerging connection to the White House (Republican) had to be discussed. Next, a Chennai-based top honcho of the US Democratic Party had to be dealt with, separately.

4. Did you find out why they were holding you?

Yes. The trading community had complained that Antara knew about the navies. The complaint probably reached the White House. The latter immediately gave the go-ahead for excessive behaviour to friends, family and others. That was 2010-2011.

No subsequent Presidential team bothered to reverse the above so their stances on navies was quite similar.

 5. Nothing about the Fed?

No. If Antara wrote blogposts about the Federal Reserve, meant to assist Austria and Germany, she won't owe them anything. They'd have no say over her life and decisions.

6. And to the White House?

It attacked the 'Russian narrative', wherever it emerged, in FACSIMILE or elsewhere. That was not correct, the 'Russian narrative' apparently wanted to solve the death of President McKinley. Did the White House not even care for previous incumbents?

If not, why was it so?

7. Any clue as to why the White House distrusted the Russians?

Yes, somebody, in recent times, over the last decade or so, told the White House that Russians had no connection to Prussians, what Russians claimed as Prussians were 'legit lease' people. At the mention of the 'legit lease', the White House apparently lost it.

Anjali had an anecdote about someone's cottage in a Bengal village, a part of the earthen floor was raised, like a circular plate, they washed it daily, ate off it, didn't use utensils. 

It implied Prussians were 'raised' from among the legit lease people.

June 24, 2026.

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The learning curve

1. Did it not bother you that since the 1980s, the British knew where the lease was, how it was being misused, that they could have brought it back to their country?

It was like Ajit returning from a visit to Kolkata. Antara would hurriedly take his briefcase inside, to see what clothes or confectionary or sweets he had got for them, and he'd call out after her, "Sorry, didn't have time to shop for stuff. There was no time at all."

2. Muller's arrangement wouldn't survive the lease being brought back to Britain, despite the backing of British and French tycoons.

Especially because of them, since they knew about Eisenhower and where he wanted the legit lease to go (CLASS ACT, 'They've paid with French philosophers, Joan!', June 22, 2026).

3. It wouldn't impact any discussion of the 1942 Wannsee Conference? Those who couldn't bring back the lease from Japan would be able to step into Muller territory of the 1940s, or support research that tried to figure out why the Wannsee Conference was meant to be publicly known?

Not a valid comparison for the White House in Washington DC.

It would say, "Asansol AG had already solved these matters, you had House meetings huddled in the school corridors."

4. They'd own up to prior knowledge of the 1942 Wannsee Conference? Both of them?

They have acknowledged the Iran War would prove costly. What did it imply if not further disclosures about what the White House and the corridors knew?

5. What kind of decisions were these? They were not willing to pay a researcher's stipend, not respect any investigative work, Antara had repeatedly said her research would look at the genocide, not the individuals?

It was an assertion against certain schools in India that were well-advised.

For example, Noida may have had a Wall Street firm advising her on the challenges she was facing. After the 9/11 attacks, as the Wall Street firms capitulated to NRI and Communist assertions, its earlier thinking, the advice it provided, would change. 

All of us would think our lives were changing for the worse.

6. And if you had access to Wall Street firms before the 9/11 attacks, you'd also have information on Tagores and other Indian topics.

Not just that. The NRIs were alleging that Antara knew these girls, so it didn't matter if Wall Street firms had no direct interactions with Antara. She could have learned from Noida and those like her.

7. What did Antara learn from Noida?

Oh, the simplest meals in her school lunch box looked delectable. Noodles, no veggies, no soy sauce, smothered in ketchup. Four decades after she saw Noida eat that, Antara still thought about it.

8. But she walked home with her maid?

Yes, they lived close by. The maid carried the umbrella.

It apparently depicted the assignee of the lease, the one who had the rights and the benefits to help the legit lease heir.

9. And yet Starmer had to resign. Over Tasmania.

Yes. The contractual violations around the legit lease were so terrifying, no wonder the White House wanted to discuss the 1942 Wannsee Conference.

June 23, 2026.

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They've paid with French philosophers, Joan!

1. You were aware that they were trying to corner you over your introverted nature from the schooldays.

Let them do so.

2. They were trying to assess which British political party was closer to her.

These had been settled on the torture-surveillance, as soon as Antara learnt her narrative, around 2019. 

"Of course you were scared of British men and women, given the Nazi Holocaust."

It was decided no one in India or elsewhere needed to know the above.

3. What happened inside Asansol AG classrooms?

"In between classes, they moved with ease between the desks."

It was probably an allusion from 2021, again not meant to be publicly shared. 

Antara was not 'in-between classes', she possibly couldn't "move with ease between desks". 

How terrifying would it be if she did that, everyone would allege that Antara couldn't connect to or identify with any European stance, she was just sniffing around.

4. They were trying to gather their thoughts that 'upper-strata' behaviour was not real.

That, too, had been discussed in the allusions. 

'Upper-strata' behaviour was taught by Antara's parents, certain older relatives, and endless batchmates. It was real, Antara was not caught in any deceit.

For example, back at Brabourne Hostel during Junior College, Antara had gone to a batchmate's room, her mother had come visiting earlier that evening and brought Bengali food over. 

As Antara entered the room, the batchmate had said, "Look at you, with your nose all crinkled up, going sniff-sniff, what were you, a cat, always sniffing around?"

That was an example. Antara had to tell that batchmate that her room was reeking of food. 

There was rice, fish curry, chicken curry on her desk, in generous proportions, but she didn't offer any to Antara. The latter didn't ask for it either, waiting for the hostel dinner bell.

How difficult was it? Don't sniff around in other people's lives, protest when it was outrageous, don't eat anyone else's food unless it was offered.  

The US authorities wanted to keep the Ukraine narrative for US citizens, it was their call, their priorities. Antara didn't dislike India till the Aadhaar fiasco tore her apart.

Fallen people have dignity, how else would you make that point?

5. Let us guess. Except at the workplaces and among close relations, Indian men didn't offer instructions to Antara about 'upper-strata' behaviour. Hence the workplaces were attacked, as were Antara's parents.

The problem with the Housing boys could be discussed in terms of how they managed their 'adda'/chatting sessions. 

In the evenings, the chef and one of his buddies would lie on their back on the concrete top of the underground water reservoir. What did it mean, they had German backing? Wasn't German intelligence either with S&P Global or elsewhere but not accessible to people?

Or was German backing merely about disliking Antara, which was fine with her, history was on her side, not with the Germans. 

In later years, around 20-25 of these Housing young men would sit under the water reservoir tower, on weekend mornings, gazing at the apartment where the chef and his folks lived. 

Wow, self-explanatory to say the least, Eisenhower and his buddies loved Indian men and would give them the legit lease! 

It would explain the US military's reluctance to liberate the Nazi death camps.

On those occasions, Antara usually hid at the other side of the water reservoir tower. 

"Why were you hiding," Ajit would say, "these chaps were ruffians, no need to fear them."

"I don't want them to see me, you go across that broken wall to the shop, I'd be behind this tree, they wouldn't know I was there but I could hear what they were saying."

6. But Ajit understood the need to protect yourself. So that the lease didn't become visible to everyone.

Another 'adda'/chatting session was the concrete benches (don't even...) at the corner of the football field. In summer, they'd raise a plastic roofing for it, could you believe it, only for chatting on summer afternoons?

The implications? Make sure the torturers were unsentimental, when allusions work was being done.

7. Such 'benches' for 'adda' were called 'rock' in Bengali. They didn't want to hear about the gulag. You brought it up at HT, during an editorial meeting, a one-to-one?

They've paid with French philosophers. 

'A rock feels no pain. And an island never cries'.

June 22, 2026.

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Vietnamese matcha in Hollywood, Ukraine ceasefire

 1. It was a Hung Cao blogpost (CLASS ACT, 'Got the Iran deal instead', June 19, 2026). 

It was a blogpost alerting the Indians about the agility of the Global South.

Hung Cao was probably not in the US Navy when Antara was slotting 'Occupy Wall Street' pieces for HT in 2011, but he was born in 1971 and got his SecNavy job in April 2026.

2. Vietnam would be out of the legit lease? 

Anyone who fought the Vietnam War or had any known connection to Vietnam was anyway never part of the legit lease, why Antara didn't get her narrative was not pursued by them. 

If Antara's safety meant nothing to them, if her lack of Aadhaar was of no consequence, if the abuse she faced at home--"enough with those lectures, always about global events, learn to earn a living"--didn't bother them, why should they be part of the legit lease?

Didn't Antara have a job through 'Occupy Wall Street' 2011 and Military Sealift 2012? Where did it go? 

You were asserting with a Vietnamese SecNavy, which meant you shouldn't have fought them, something else was going on there?

3. China?

You didn't follow the problem with the Sun Fo currency? You wanted to spend national resources on the Chiang Kai-Shek archive? Why wasn't the Obama Presidential Centre opened in Taiwan? Why were the Taiwanese always exempted from spending? 

4. The 'talking point' of the instability was solved?

It was a blackmail about the 'Black Hundreds', a Russian movement that was supposed to inspire a crackdown on monarchists and ultranationalists. 

"It was an idea that came from the lazy afternoons the Global South academics spent in the US universities, enjoying the US dollar while also weakening it".

5. Ukraine ceasefire. Please tell me Asansol AG was still not pursuing it, the dedication was becoming frightening.

Summers and Bono. 

Asansol AG was being encouraged by all Germans, "you were our real WWII allies, from the villages of Bengal, you who took those bold steps towards an ICSE education, you'd always be the winners".

The Ukraine ceasefire HAD to belong to Asansol AG, the 'namaste' had been rejected, Antara had been 'elbowed' out, how else would the US Congress indicate its priorities, its love, affection for Indian women? 

6. You would never say Pratima.

It meant the same thing, those three words, 'pratima' and 'debi' and 'thakur' referred to idols/goddesses. Anyone could assume that responsibility, from a Presidential Museum or Centre. 

7. Tell me the Ukraine ceasefire blackmail.

Georgy Gapon. A working-class leader. A Russian Orthodox priest of Ukrainian descent.

Gapon's influence within Asansol AG led to Antara's traumatic experience there. 

It was enacted by Hollywood, Georgie-Missy-Sheldon.

8. Who worked in Hollywood?

The Austrian Chancellor. Not merely the catering. A lot of Wolfgang Schussel since the 9/11 attacks, the US Congress was elated, "Real Austrians taking interest in the American movie industry."

Antara's turn. 

Has anyone actually watched the entirety of 'Forrest Gump' or would reading about James Forrestal be considered enough for a US visa?

June 19, 2026.

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Got the Iran deal instead!

1. We seemed to have reached some kind of an impasse.

More like a roadblock. That too for Chinese hydrocarbons.

2. What was with these Iran deals? The more the merrier, they never ceased to amaze.

Well, you've got to keep in mind the severe stress the US Congress had faced since 2019-2020. The westerners didn't take to 'namaste', they greeted with their 'elbows'. As messaging meant for Habermasian intelligence in easy-to-digest format, Washington DC couldn't get more explicit.

3. What was the excuse this time around?

All existing shops had information aplenty on traders/businessmen who manufactured electrical appliances in Kolkata. 

4. And what was keeping Antara in contention for food and shelter?

Well, BT's House was ruined by the One Story, Antara still hadn't used her House, and if the last few years were what was left of AT's House, what kind of global networks did it maintain?

5. Why was it hyper these last few years, because of the Ukraine War?

No, the global networks of AT's House were offended by 'Occupy Wall Street' (2011). 

Back at HT, Antara used to slot the 'Occupy Wall Street' stories in the anchor slot, so the US Navy was not taken aback when the Military Sealift episode was suggested.

When it came to the protesters and their Venetian masks, AT's House networks saw nothing but Berlusconi and you could see where it had led. 

China was imploring for the Naz... anecdotes from Brabourne, it got the Iran deal instead.

6. No!! Why?

Antara's blog had discussed the preparatory Islamabad talks that (hopefully) led to the Iran deal, it had mentioned China using the 'upper-strata', the latter would probably claim that someone else was using the 'upper-strata' in its same.

7. And it was about a batchmate, a contemporary.

Yes, that was not the problem, she was under pressure, a Muslim female from Assam. 

Her last night at the hostel, the superintendent had put a team of girls on her, sort of a 'suicide watch', the situation got complicated from there.

Antara was close to her but didn't meet her/go to her room that night, 'upper-strata', real and fake, couldn't collide like that.

8. What ignorant and prejudiced behaviour could lead to! What did you suggest?

Antara suggested the same thing she'd suggested the last several years. 

Treat the blog as a learning module.  Learn about the world it represented.

Keeping in mind the sibling and hostel anecdotes, Antara requested fresh work on the withdrawal of security clearance for J Robert Oppenheimer.

June 18, 2026.

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Warring over sides

1. Why did those of considerable intellectual acumen want Antara unemployed at home?

They might be able to evade responsibility for it.

Remember, Antara didn't have her narrative but she had the information/allusions. When she saw media honchos make rookie mistakes in the newsrooms, it became embarrassing for her.

For example, at the Kolkata reporting office, she had merely waited, later in 2007, she went for a visit to Chennai, where she met the bosses and made it known that she wanted to contribute to 'Frontline' magazine. At that point, she was warned about stepping on the toes of the 1936 Abdication Crisis.

Afterwards, Antara had understood that the Northern Ireland Troubles held the 1936 Abdication Crisis together, and as you'd understand, the political gains from Brexit were not guaranteed till eternity, they were running out.

2. Interesting. How was it that the 1936 Abdication Crisis was all around Antara during the noughts but it neither came up in allusions nor blogs?

It would become a 'talking point' later.

If Antara's parents and Israel grabbed all the attention, no one would understand that we were discussing the 1936 Abdication Crisis.

3. How did Ajit-Anjali consider the matter?

They had indicated that even a brief reign at the top would have been beneficial for the Austrians.

However, the Global Communists read it wrong, interpreting "brief reign" as German Emperor Frederick III and what relations he had with the United States.

4. What did they assume about Emperor Frederick III and the US Govt?

It was not pleasant to discuss such things. They thought he had brought up the global outbreak of diseases, requesting that the railroads take care of the legit lease heir in case of such an eventuality.

5. And what did they do with that information?

Those considered intellectually skilled by the British (so not Antara) were kept close to the French education system to understand the European events of the first half of the 20th century. That way, they'd have British Houses, French education, European understanding and a Hindu theological backing.

6. So they thought they were being prepped for the lease.

Yes. Antara was asked by her Brabourne Junior College hostel mates to write letters to them during summer vacations. Thereby, she got close to her maternal grandmother's side. 

It was not correct of Ischinger to prod Russia into invading Ukraine. Had Putin remained a friend of the western nations, Antara wouldn't have a cause to fight for or western ideals to defend.

June 17, 2026.

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It was a regular desk

 After Stamp Act 1765, it was the turn of Pontiac's War.

Apparently, these topics were being used by Antara's generation to settle the Great Succession question. 

To provide heft, several former batchmates had 'agreed' to join Antara's side.

It was not correct, given the blog was not even one-tenth the work that Antara did on a daily basis. 

These former batchmates were free to leave Antara, if they felt hesitant.

Pontiac's War (1763) was about British rule in the Great Lakes region. 

Sometime in 1986, when her Gorakhpur aunt was unwell with a terminal disease, Antara's parents had gone to visit her, they came back about a week or so later. Anjali was full of stories about the 'great lake' next to the railway apartment in which Antara's Gorakhpur aunt and uncle lived. (The aunt passed away in 1987.)

Around 1990, when her Gorakhpur cousin married, Ajit-Anjali went to Gorakhpur again, along with Antara and the sibling. The uncle had retired, they no longer lived next to the 'great lake', so all of them went visiting the railway neighbourhood where they had previously lived.

The uncle and Cousin Botuk had accompanied them, the latter kept complaining, "What's to see in Ram Tal (the 'great lake'), we could have gone to Gorakhnath Temple etc."

"Just to see it, wanted to show the wonder to Antara, so that she saw the 'great lake'," Anjali had replied.

Thus, legit lease solved these problems quite well, Pontiac's War etc, which was strange, given the expert scholarship prevailing in Britain about the early legit lease, it still wanted to consider Pontiac's War as a puzzle.

Of course, one possibility was that Kolkata was intrigued why these lease-related historical puzzles were often solved by Anjali, where she got her information, apart from foreign language schools, whether Prussian networks went around surreptitiously spreading legit lease information.

It was a network all right, but not Prussian, it was called the English East India Company, it knew lease details and might have shared it with NS Road.

The English East India Company had pure silk traders, so their activities were not always known to those who produced artificial silk in laboratories in the early 20th century. 

Given what happened in 2001, why did Jadavpur hire a management consulting firm whose origins lay in making artificial silk?

Was it not familiar with the English East India Company?

Worse, was Jadavpur afraid of the Tagores? 

Did both the Germans and their Musk refuse to discuss the topic, hence engaging a consulting firm to find out why Antara didn't fear the Tagores?

June 16, 2026.

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Ukraine on their minds

The discussion of shopkeepers across West Bengal, gathered in some kind of informal trade union, under Bengali businessmen of Kolkata, did not go down well. (The information was shared over an email.)

Bengali shopkeepers seemed hesitant, anxious till 2012, Anjali would often say, "Look at how they conduct their business, they start the day by carrying most of their capital on them."

It was true, even before a single sale, they were loaded with wads of cash, they had got whatever they had. 

Later, Antara had thought it was about WWII blackmails (financiers and the fiercest fighting in the 'pockets') but then she remembered seeing the cash kept under plastic sheets as well, on which the shopkeepers were often seated, so not WWII.

"Don't they keep their money in banks?" Antara had asked Anjali.

"Did they look like they had the courage to interact with banks?" Anjali had replied.

The socialist directions of State policy suggested 'last mile banking' as a desired objective, and socialism was far more embedded in the national psyche than merely the Preamble to the Indian Constitution.

The desire to score easy points often got the better of certain individuals.

If the focus of G7 was to force Austrians to own up to the intrigues of the Stamp Act of 1765, then Austrians deserved to know the following.

There was an allusion involving Antara's participation in a short story contest, around 2013-14, Antara's short story did well but someone called Mehsuda won, but the allusion was not enough to be considered seriously.  

If there were intrigues at all, let Bengali businessmen take responsibility for Stamp Act 1765, they wanted the British to let go of the American colonies, they were desirous that the United States become a capitalist nation, setting up banks and financial institutions, even organise HIB visas so that Bengalis who desired banking services could immigrate to the US. 

Antara didn't desire any proximity to Stamp Act 1765.

For one, Antara had paid too high a price to stay away from Stamp Act 1765. 

Ajit obsessed with the Tennessee Valley Authority, established in 1933, important political careers began that year as well, he might not have wanted to connect those political careers to the Tennessee Valley Authority. 

Antara got married at a Hindu temple situated near a hydroelectric dam, she knew how Tennessee Valley Authority went about its ways. 

And if she remained loyal to her own life, she wouldn't have to worry about which railroad launched Nye Committee/Investigation of Munitions Industry (mid-1930s), or if it blamed the Morgans or Duponts for war-profiteering, "We don't know such things, we didn't use banking facilities in the US and given the Tennessee Valley Authority etc."

Despite the above, in the year 2000, a Bengali male academic from the US turned up at Jadavpur for a seminar. He taught at Boulder, Colorado. 

Boulder meant stone. 

Colorado or 'Partido Colorado' meant Red Party, a conservative political party founded in Paraguay on Sept 11, 1887. 

The Bengali from Boulder, Colorado took an inordinate interest in the spouse, then a university student, wanted the latter to immigrate to Colorado for a teaching job. 

(Supriya had said "she couldn't afford it".)

'Partido Colorado' was the only legal party in Paraguay between 1947 and 1962. It controlled the presidency since 1948, except for an interruption between 2008 and 2013, when Antara was working as a journalist in Delhi newsrooms.

There were British-educated surgeons in Asansol who ate nothing but 'para'/peda (a sweet) for dinner.

"What happened, Britain, forgot to share all that Paraguay intelligence with Antara? Decided to try torture instead? At some point, Agency would take the blame for the torture? The dazzle of Digital Humanities made HUMINT look less? Paint Brush Girl had to take the fall? 

Or did you not realise that the Treasury didn't do banking in the US, that Antara was free both of American independence blackmails as well as the 1958 Mutual Defence Agreement?

Baranagar and Alipur beckoned, so Ukraine collapsed all over again?"

Now what was a capable military tribunal? One that could explain the intriguing behaviour of the officials of British intelligence?

June 15, 2026.

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Mamdani shouldn't become the approach to Norway

 "The following could be treated as a 'guest blogpost', since Antara was not sure whether to agree with it or not.

If Defense Intelligence was being challenged that several of the 'personae' doing the rounds, including Chetla's, were created by Jewish individuals and later sold to the Global South, the situation needed to be understood as it unfolded.

As they were moving from Bankura to Asansol in early 1984, Ajit-Anjali were offered packed lunch by a neighbour. They had decided to travel by road to Asansol, on the truck carrying the furniture, not use an automobile. Their packed lunch consisted of parathas, the neighbour was a Bengali Muslim, the dough had been kneaded with eggs.

Thus, belonging to a famed, exalted House made one eligible for a 'persona', a distinction probably available to Ajit-Anjali but not to Antara. However, Antara didn't have the papers of being an 'adopted child' either, Chetla would furnish these papers if they were demanded of her. 

Thus, the supposed biological child growing up in faraway Kolkata had been entrusted with the adoption papers of the 'adopted child', such was the level of mismanagement. It was obvious Chetla would use it as a weapon to hurt Antara.

Through the journey, Antara sat on Anjali's lap, not on the seat of the truck, from Brown House-empowered Kolkata, expect strident aggression.

Antara's weakness saw exponential increase 2014 onwards, apparently because of what the southern Indian college students had discussed about their course curriculum in the previous decade.  

However, the rivalry that erupted between the Marine Corps and the financiers once S&P Global grabbed German intelligence was never brought up in Antara's context, its details protected by the pro-Orient/pro-Cathay approach of the Commerce Rocket and NFL.

Given how NFL thought of the Agency, if it had decided on yet another FIFA World Cup in the US, so be it, don't take it on right now.

During Antara's ACJ stint, it was assumed that Antara's allusions work would consist of unravelling the Marine Corps vs financiers controversy, what had brought the US military to a standstill over the previous two decades. Indian women might enjoy some financiers' privileges but that was all there was to the challenge for Antara. 

There was never any question of torturing Antara.

There was never any question of Antara researching round the clock, from world wars to military equipment, cultural topics to espionage, to be allowed the right "to cook a meal" or "mop the floors", what was her only purpose in life as per the NRIs.

It was deliberate, vengeful behaviour that Antara faced since 2014. It was connected to the Global South immigration pattern.

Since we were now aware of the 'do-trains-still-run-in-the-US' political careers of Hillary and Michelle, all research would have to progress on that front. 

The greater Antara's railroad information, the less the likelihood that the torture-surveillance would end up with Mamdani (CLASS ACT, 'Britain, then Norway', June 8, 2026)."

June 12, 2026.

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Never accept any call from an unknown international etc

Antara came across female school students of Kolkata after she enrolled at Junior College Brabourne in Kolkata in the mid-1990s.

Ajit-Anjali didn't have any relatives in Kolkata, if they visited the city in the 1980s and 1990s, they stayed at the govt circuit house. Antara was familiar with Kolkata schoolboys walking past that neighbourhood (Hindi High, which later became Birla High) but she had never seen any girl students.

Once she stayed in Kolkata, the schoolgirls she came across were mostly from 'Modern High', which was close enough to Brabourne. They didn't tuck their striped shirts into their skirts, wore jewellery and make-up (what was prohibited at Asansol AG), they painted their nails and wore pumps/shoes without socks. 

They also carried their few books without a bag, and looked at Antara with a 'I-dare-you' attitude, so Antara assumed it was some twisted play, of course they had school bags and satchels, and pairs of socks as well, something else was going on.

Later, when she saw the two-storied school building of 'Our Lady Queen...' etc, with its brown coat of paint, and still later when she got the narrative, she understood the 'dare', "We have Brown House, so wherever you were headed, keep it in mind."

The above was not enough. 

Junior College Brabourne (Arts) also had Tina M, at 16 years of age she smoked and had a boyfriend, everyone fell over each other to converse with Tina M on those rare occasions she showed up for the classes, even Antara had once asked her, "Which high school did you attend?" to which Tina M had replied, "Why, our very 'Our Lady Queen... etc."

So doing the rounds of around 500 m of a Kolkata neighbourhood, Antara had thought to herself, 'Our Lady Queen...' closer to Brabourne than 'Modern High', no wonder Tina M seemed annoyed. What a restricted life!

After the above incident, Tina M never attended classes again, nor wrote her exams, did she know how to read Antara's thoughts? Or was she supposed to come only for a few days, probably to enact 'lease family in Ukraine' and alert the French intelligence operatives in the US?

It was 1995. The previous year, the United States had hosted the FIFA World Cup.

One explanation for Tina M's presence in the Arts class would be Noida and how she alerted Kolkata about the presence of possible Polish influence at Asansol AG. It was apparently in Asansol AG's regular fests and exhibitions, if suggested by Poland, which had become popular, savvy events. 

Asansol AG students were expert salespersons, the profit percentages they agreed on were surprising, yet parents and guests obliged, apparently "no one wanted to be on the wrong side of Lou Gramm and Al Greenwood".

(Gramm and Greenwood apparently supported the various regions of Madhya Pradesh in India, had there been a Pratibha, they would have disliked her.)

The profits earned by the students from the fests and exhibitions were discussed at school during the morning assembly. However, the proceeds from the profits, how it was spent, remained between those who managed the stalls and the schoolteachers, maybe Gramm and Greenwood knew.

For those not allowed to leave India, the comparisons would be startling, "What was the 'profit' earned by those involved in the 'stalling', say the US military and their award-winning friends?" (CLASS ACT, 'Story of Multani gais', June 10, 2026.)

One way to manage the 'profits' would be to send a Kolkata female to the US to secure both the Agency and the Middle East, the former through 'friendly' behaviour (Taiwan etc) and the latter through an overemphasis on crude oil vis-a-vis EV, which was not obvious yet, no one was discussing the energy crisis as they ought to, except in India.

Once the Agency and the Middle East were secured, both of these could work with financiers to manage the profits from the 'stalling'/difficulties in travelling away from India.

If the above was true, you'd wonder about the purpose of Tina M. 

With her in-laws and others, staying in that 'strange palace' in a Marathi city.

Did they feel used? Did they feel like cameos?

And if that was the story of 'wealth creators', why should Antara be challenged if she used some information from a southern Indian college?

June 11, 2026.

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Story of Multani gais

 "We had taken enough precautions before the sale of British Houses started from 1995 onwards. 

These were arrangements for 'upper-strata'-based geopolitics, decades ahead of the actual events, especially for those not eligible for the 'upper-strata'.

Had it not been for Kemps, how would the Communist success of the last three decades prove so enduring? It was not even necessary to conduct an investigation of ICSE 1995 at a small-town school in West Bengal.

Kemps ran a round of tests on Antara in 2006. 

It was her second day as a reporter in Kolkata, she had a NICED assignment near Beliaghata (a Kolkata neighbourhood), even as she was entering the premises, a female PR agent took her aside and offered her a bottle of Yakult, a beverage not available in the Indian market at that point. 

"Two birds with one stone," Kemps had thought, "if Antara believed that her parents cared for her safety, she'd call and tell them when she got home at night that her reporting career began with a beverage offered by a female stranger. If railroads had any interest in the legit lease, they'd get involved as well, beverages offered by fellow passengers on Indian trains often led to robbery."

Neither did Antara tell her parents about the Yakult offered to her nor did the railroads bother.

Why Antara didn't stay at a working women's hostel, why she got married (after a decade spent in hostels and as paying guests during her student days) was the raging discussion.

It was not a criticism of the sibling. 

Her college in Asansol was next to a lane where subversives took a breather in between muggings, assaulting women and stopping and looting freight trains. That's where the sibling studied, for five years, junior college Science and undergraduate Chemistry.

Yes, Antara. 

The American professional class of your parents' generation and those somewhat younger, say in their 60s and 70s, were doing it. They had the exceptional encouragement of those that invested in British Houses since the 1990s. Their Indian counterparts wanted that life as well, for themselves, you've heard about it before, it was quite true.

The recipe wasn't that difficult either. The Multani Gais were sent from a British intelligence shop/Tagore den, those in India close to the event had first-hand and exceptional details. 

Only the American wealthy were not being able to break into the party!

Hence the front-page story etc.

You were wondering what erupted all over you on June 10, 2026?

Cham, Switzerland, was used by the Indian middle-class to break into the 'upper-strata'. You were aware that it was the fake 'upper-strata', the real upper-strata was for individuals like you, why you could write on gender as a journalist, the fake one wouldn't allow it.

However, the operatives of fake 'upper-strata' were nasty, they knew how you chose your friends, to make up for deficiencies. That you had become close to the Alamo Girl because of her courage to be different from the rest, that you picked a rare elitism from that Jadavpur Comp Lit chap also working for Delhi magazines.

Yes, it was the Comp Lit founder's idea (the male novelist) to have a fake 'upper-strata', you'd spend your life fighting it as the Multani Gais' supporters watched from the sidelines.

What else was left? Why the Fed cooperated with Bhagalpur?

In their own days, NS Road, Pentagon, were intelligence stalwarts. Bhagalpur wanted to become somewhat like them, with the ability to devise an Abbottabad raid of his own, from start to end, what he thought of the US military.

'The Nobel guy was so helpful in using Long Telegram to keep Antara away from US university campuses. If he was asking us to wait a few more years, now that Antara was unwell, why shouldn't we help him out?'

Antara, what would have gone wrong had you studied liberal arts in the US?

You came from India, you always studied with Indians, you wouldn't mind the other Indian students.

Did they discuss Embry-Riddle, NYMA at the classrooms of US universities?"

June 10, 2026.

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Commerce raider or Commerce rocket?

1. Why did Dsa think that Ajit-Anjali wouldn't have much to say once the crisis got more engaging?

The same story. They sacrificed their aspirations, in the early 1960s, so that Austria (the country) would be safe. As became obvious over the last decades, Antara was not secure against her tormentors at all.

2. Interesting. You think they lost the trail, how far it went?

No, it was a combination of assurances. The British helped navigate shallow waters only when the entire family was together. As was obvious, Antara was not considered part of the family, it was making the local citizenry furious, these discussions of Antara being isolated, so she'd rather not share the details of the paperwork collected etc.

3. Did Ajit-Anjali willingly collect the paperwork?

Oh, around 1995, they hadn't understood what was going on. Ajit-Anjali had endless visitors at their Housing flat, colleagues, neighbours, relatives. 

If there was an unusual late-evening visit after Antara's ICSE exam results were published, from the Dakshineshwar sorts, they didn't realise it was a 'doctor', that the Dakshineshwar sorts were replacing the 'doctors' as the British Houses were being sold. 

Consider how low Ajit must have fallen, merely an individual fearful of medications and Big Pharma (CLASS ACT, 'Britain, then Norway', June 8, 2026)

4. What did that late-evening visit in May 1995 indicate, from the suddenly turned 'doctor'?

The visit hinted that you have been 'outed' (scoring 80 in Bengali Language and Literature) because there was someone in Antara's class through the previous decade who was claiming she was closer to BT than Ajit and his daughters. 

That individual returned to India from the US in 2014, was in charge of supposed 'legit lease' aspirations, apparently advised the Palace.

5. How did she become so knowledgeable on BT? Russian emigres? Navy personnel? Pray tell.

Those Navy-infiltration stories were for wannabes. Every place infiltrated to the high heavens, apocalyptic fears. Those that posited themselves to be closer to BT had sent forward classmates to the United States, settled in the Rutgers campus etc, but originally from Purulia town. That, however, was merely the decoy.

The information on BT came through the postal system, guess who sent it? For which US Presidential terms?  

The best thing was, it was a BT profile without any reference to Ukraine. Also, it considered Anjali and Antara as fallen out of favour with Ajit, the divorced side, hence ineligible for anything.

6. So some individual getting classified information that avoided the harsh global realities was the plan of tomorrow.

If tomorrow came, it would have come via the Great Game but given what happened to Le Bulldozer, one had to be cautious (CLASS ACT, 'Britain, then Norway', June 8, 2026).

7. What did they want from Antara?

Ajit thought it was about Cham, Switzerland (of the condensed milk fame) they were after, he referred to the skin as 'cham' (ch as in 'chair'), "till they've got the skin"/'cham chhariye nebe'.

Anjali thought it was about the November 2000 US presidential elections, "Cham re chirkutti/Tokey ki ami niyechhi", 'Hey hanging chad fellas backed by Cham, Switzerland, did I choose you?'

June 9, 2026.

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Britain, then Norway

 1. You were not 'cushing' the Paul as much as he needed. First S Paul whatever in the emails, now Germans ran SIFE in the 1950s. What was it, a 'returning champion' tactic?

All of Antara's setbacks, reversals, insults, scores being lowered on exam score-cards, physical attacks, had originated from West Bengal.

2. Don't go there if the violence was spilling over.

They react in weird ways. So it was one Maggi quiz contest. To have a genre called DIY? Dalhousie Institute didn't consider it excessive?

3. You cared about those places?

Antara liked to keep in mind where the Communists gathered.

4. And back in the day, the Chetlas and Chinsurahs wouldn't have known about it.

They were giving the men their 'space' to do their thing etc.

5. How did it become a male thing, quizzing?

It was not a male thing. The spouse considered it 'trivia-gathering', went against him was what Antara understood.

6. And the sibling?

She misses lots of things, not reliable when it came to Kolkata and its intrigues.

Tell me, why should anyone threaten with Rewa? We were not making overtures to the Rewa people. Why shouldn't Antara have the right to mention Rewa in a blog? (Class Act, 'Ucha hain dariya mein jhanda hamara', May 25, 2026.)

7. What did they do?

Officials often have French counterparts. Antara had missed the Salat-Baroux sorts. The toolkit matter needed solving, it could lead to pogroms against Jews, how else would one define Oct 7 2023? Then it would become Antara's responsibility.

8. So Dsa got Salat-Baroux involved?

Looked like it. That visit to the forestry reserve in Orissa in May 1990, about Rewa? Just before they had come across the 'white tiger', there was an elephant calf being shown around, tourists were patting its head, Antara didn't, then it opened its mouth, Antara had a few chocolates in her handbag (Cadbury Eclairs), but she didn't want to touch the moist mouth and tongue of the elephant calf.

9. Then?

The 'mahout' took the chocolates and fed it to the calf, "So scared? Look how easy it was". Antara had laughed to herself, "Like I wanted to go around covered in elephant saliva".

10, Tete de veau was 'calf's head'.

Which we didn't pat.

11. But France fell (WWII), Norway had fought.

Tell me about it.

12. Were trying to buy that country?

What else could it be?

13. You don't think Ajit actually hated doctors, did you? He might have disliked medicines, Big Pharma, how was it possible?

He was on the railroad when it happened, from 1995 to 2007, how Britain was lost. It was July 1995, rain clouds hanging low. They were coming back from Kolkata, having 'purchased forms' for admission to Junior College Brabourne. Antara was torn up inside, Ajit seemed extremely distraught. "Was he upset about buying the forms, did he not want me to study in Kolkata?"

14. They bought the Houses, not the intelligence services.

He was called Le Bulldozer, for his ambition. Ajit had once referred to a bulldozer driver in Asansol, "Such a mighty machinery, the one driving the bulldozer ate a four-legged grass-fed herbivore every day."

June 8, 2026.

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They ran away for Maths. They stayed close to each other for Maths.

 1. Was Antara aware that the mathematics syllabus in India was caught in a legit lease/Prof Hardy/Indian mathematician blackmail?

No. Antara had been told, "If you struggle with progression, don't even think of calculus".

It implied that if you struggled on Indian topics, you'd never be able to make inroads into Brussels. 

It was possible everyone was not aware that Brussels would become an Open City, citta aperta, these were complicated matters.

2. Apparently, India had lacked sufficient financial weight for advanced mathematics.

It would be Antara's turn to be taken aback. Really? What about the private tutors? What about the millions of coaching centres? What about the online tutorials? Were they based in India or were they operating from Mars?

In the end, Indian students solved mathematical problems like a whirlwind in a desert, as American students and Antara gaped in wonder. 

Antara was recently told that the 'amazing acumen' in Mathematics was coming from NATO military ops, both during the Cold War and thereafter, that NATO generals supplied these coaching centres.

Just consider where it would leave Antara, if Batanagar and CR Park both used NATO for Mathematics coaching purposes.

3. Hmm. So it was unlikely, they might have been duped, what extra financial strength did NATO military ops have, apart from usual allocation? What about railroads, would Antara be able to work them into the situation?

Antara used the railway cafetaria in Asansol, when she was a postgrad student at Jadavpur, during 2001-2002. She took the Toofan Express from Howrah at 9.40 am, the one that went straight to the border (Sriganganagar), travelled on the ladies' compartment, reached Asansol at 1.40 pm. 

Then she'd race past the milling crowd at the railway station, to reach the Indian Railways cafetaria, she had a veg thali for lunch.

Usually, the cafetaria would be empty except for some upcountry men eating similar thalis, the younger Indian men usually ordered sandwiches and omelettes.

The waiters never let Antara reach the counter, to collect cutlery or tissues, they'd indicate to her to remain seated, they'd fetch it for her.

Antara's connecting train to Purulia was at 2.55 pm, so by 2.30 pm, Antara would have purchased her ticket and reached the platform (Platform No 1) to board the train. She reached Purulia around 6 pm, a day spent in travel.

4. Interesting about the railway cafetaria. You think the railroad intelligence networks later got taken over, were now within NATO?

Several years later, it had been hinted to Antara that often, next to her, a single mother would eat, with her bairns sitting atop the table. It was untrue, there were no bairns sitting on any of the tables in that railway cafetaria. 

If Chetla and Supriya were implied, how did they win the loyalty of these bairns?

What did they know of the Vietnam War and Casey Sr, was it used to divert the car towards Dakshineshwar in Nov 2007? (CLASS ACT, 'Nov 2007 was such a big deal', June 4, 2026)

5. What did they serve for veg thali at the railway cafetaria?

Usually, they'd serve rice, dal and soyabean curry. 

Antara, however, knew Supriya's cooking techniques, she used granular soya, called it "nutrela keema", turned it into fritters, which she called "keema chop".

So Morgan in Ukraine had taken the car towards Dakshineshwar in Nov 2007.

6. If you removed Supriya, it left Chetla with the bairns seated atop the table?

It seemed that way, Chetla as a powerful presence within NATO.

June 5, 2026.

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"Nov 2007 was such a big deal"

 1. Would Antara feel a tinge of regret if she found out that Science students in India were mentored by the Austrians?

No. Antara wouldn't feel any regret. Antara disliked hilly areas, they were difficult to manage, she had written to the Austrians and told them so. She'd be happy that she studied the Arts.

2. Did Antara consider Science students servile to Disney or even to the White House?

No, Antara liked Science students. But their pursuit of the Sciences was often difficult to distinguish from immigration, their concern for funding often sounded like illicit wealth. The Soviet KI-ness of Science was difficult to ignore.

3. In the Arts/Humanities, did Antara prefer to be a scholar? Did Antara's parents' apathy towards her career choices make her angry towards them?

Antara had wanted to earn a living as quickly as possible but in a profession that paved the way for learning as well. Journalism fit the description better than school-teaching.

Antara had noticed that her parents didn't offer any help, she thought they were tired and old, it didn't occur to her that they were deliberately leaving her to her own.

4. Why had Antara never considered writing to Austrian-origin people in the United States for a journalism job?

Antara liked staying in India. She didn't want to be a journalist in the US. One's own milieu, forgotten people and events, "local sights and smells" as they said kept her where she was. Nor was she afraid of corporates, they published newspapers/magazines, they had a right to be involved, anyone that had a problem could work elsewhere, or start one's business. 

Antara researched the Bijon Setu in Kolkata incident (early 1980s) after learning her narrative in 2018. Few newspapers might have wanted to focus on it, given the incident took place under a Communist rule.

Had Antara taken a job in the American media, she'd have been limited to topics considered relevant for her. Worse, she would be close to colleagues who wrote on legit lease matters in terms of talking to the Russian envoy in Washington DC, without informing Trump or Pence.

5. Why was it "such a big deal", talking to the Russian envoy in Washington DC?

Antara's uncle (the spouse of the third sister, Anjali being the youngest of four girls) was an agricultural scientist, he had worked at rice research, then banana cultivation and research, retiring to a town where the biggest sweetmeat was called 'rabonbhog', apparently after the Russian Rabinowitzes. 

Of course hell would break loose if you discussed the Russian Jews, from Siberia, Antara was surprised why it quietened down all of a sudden.

6. How did we know they were not discussing the Berlin 1945 WWII controversy?

The discussion with the Russian envoy seemed to have been about Ajit-Anjali. The allusions had stated that "Ajit and Anjali didn't have a war in common" so it couldn't be about WWII.

7. What did that mean?

Antara was allotted one of the best rooms of Brabourne Hostel for BA 3rd year, she had done well in her exams etc. 

It was a single-seater, she stayed alone, on her study desk lay a critical study of The Grave Digger's Speech, that neighbourhood had indicated "they were willing to understand the lease in terms of Lenin and the Nazi Holocaust."

Yet eight years later, when Antara went on a reporting assignment about an industrial development in Bengal's villages, the city of Kolkata erupted in a one-day intifada, Antara couldn't enter the city late at night except via Dakshineshwar.

Where was the Grave Digger aka Ajit?

Where was the neighbourhood of Brabourne?

Where were all of them when, past midnight, the car entered Dakshineshwar, for a two-hour drive towards Jadavpur?

June 4, 2026.

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No 'niche' magazine on healthcare, software; Antara was "not capable" of writing her UPSC; Fed's interest rates

Antara wrote her UPSC/Civil Services exams in 2004.

She wrote her Prelims (the first part of the exam) in May 2004, cleared it in August, wrote her Mains (the second part of the exam) in October -November 2004. 

However, by March 2005, she didn't get the UPSC interview call. (Antara's first preference had been Foreign Service, her second preference was IAS/bureaucracy.)

Antara was not aware that Ms Dutt was responsible for the railroad aspirations of certain groups of people, the desire to take over the manors and estates and finances of railroad owners in the US.

Nor was Antara aware that since she left high school (Asansol AG), Ms Dutt had spent a considerable time "keeping the White House in Washington DC in instability situations" while the POTUS stayed safe, secure.

"No one can get past Lane Technical or Asansol Girls' College, so in the end, the GOP would take the blame for everything, the reversals in monetary policy, all harm to human existence," Ms Dutt had apparently said.

It was the reason she was willing to gamble, take a chance with the Trumps, who'd know it was Ms Dutt who had thought it up?

After Antara's UPSC (2004), it was Ms Dutt's idea to purchase a San Francisco-based investment firm, for global diplomats, it would hire as many retired intelligence chiefs as possible, so that the 'allusions' situation was always loaded against Antara and those that Ms Dutt disliked.

The firm was renamed in 2009 and as it started its journey, Antara's life began to fall apart, her parents passed away in 2009-2010, then HT.

Ms Dutt's San Francisco-based investment firm offered commercial services, software and healthcare technology. 

Several of Antara's younger relatives, on both sides, recently joined the healthcare technology sector, and thereby came under Ms Dutt's control. They'd have to say that "Antara was not capable of writing the UPSC exam", if they wanted to stay on the good side of Chetla and Ms Dutt.

Those in the media business would have to find a way to make sure their news magazines didn't become niche in the 'healthcare' or 'software' categories. The 'design' integration could either be reversed or sorted out in the way the management considered, if we were to avoid Ms Dutt's expanding control of our lives.

June 3, 2026.

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Took Antara's parents to Canada?

Antara was not going to write on the topic she was asked to, "We all have our own Jeremies".

Antara was not trying to understand the world that emerged after she wrote on cricketer Polly Umrigar (Class Act, 'An impromptu discussion of Jordan...Antara couldn't afford Taj Hotels', April 16, 2026). 

'Polly-put-the-kettle-on' was one of the better memories she had of school, what was the problem in recounting it?

Antara had worked at newsrooms where cricket historians (and their close relations) were columnists, she had often communicated with them, even interviewed them in New Delhi's hotels, she was not trying to usurp their positions, the blog was about her life, not about cricket, what would go wrong if she mentioned cricket once in a while?

The sibling had told her, in the 1980s, that Asansol AG Church had elaborate cricketing apparatus, "the entire set, from wickets to the regulation-weight batting equipment, as well as the cricketing gear the players needed to wear but it was never taken out."

It turned out to be true, in the little more than a decade that Antara studied at Asansol AG, she never saw any cricket gear leave the store-room.

Antara never played cricket, she disliked bowling, because of the run-up, both spin and pace, was it always intended that she'd be flung in the middle of things? 

She had tried picking up the batting gear, one could manage those meant for the small boys but the actual batting equipment had proved too heavy for her, she wasn't physically sturdy enough.

Thus, if Abanindranath had wanted Antara to be an 'appurtenance', something subordinate to a bigger entity, if he had wanted so from 1857-1858, it could not be relevant to Antara the individual, who had proven herself useful and popular in categories applicable to individuals. 

Antara had helped others when necessary, she had been part of a larger society.

Abanindranath's ideas of what was bigger, what was an accessory, were best not considered, given the hundreds of millions of people who had died in the 20th century to preserve a world order.

Antara didn't want to 'discuss the Jeremies' because she didn't know whether Jeremy was close to Abanindranath, but was that a way to treat people?

Brabourne Hostel had a room on the second floor, beneath the stairs, apart and separate from the rooms along the corridor, it was supposedly haunted.

Chand-ki-beti chand-ki-beti took that room, convincing the Alamo Girl who had warned her against taking it.

"Alamo Girl," she had said, "It was the wind that shook the door at night, it rattled on its hinges, I've stayed in that room, no former Brabourne student had died there as the gossip claimed. As the door shook through the night, it seemed that someone was persistently knocking."

Introduce the concept of Lavasa through the unused cricketing gear of Asansol AG. It implied Navassa Island on the Caribbean Sea.

Introduce the concept of Windward Passage using the Brabourne hostel room. The Caribbean island of Navassa was located in the Windward Passage.

Next take Antara to a Kolkata female getting married, 2000-2001, that girl would move to Hong Kong and later to Canada, her mother kept shouting, "My son-in-law/jamai was the best." Navassa Island was to the east of Jamaica.

Antara tried to draw a diagram. She got Bangladesh (east of Kolkata), Canada of 'Friends' sitcom and Navassa Island, an island disputed between the US and Haiti.

If the Abanindranath loyalists in Bangladesh wanted Navassa Island, why did it prevent Antara from earning a living, why was it tormenting for everyone?

Because the last episode of any discussion of German intelligence was the cricketers, it could be used for 'Austrian severance'? (Class Act, 'Antara didn't want any emails from Austria', June 1, 2026)

June 2, 2026.

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Antara didn't want any emails from Austria

Most of the problems arose through June 1, 2026, because of severance pressures from Austria.

"It was impossible that women of a certain country would want anything except that."

The US would have to know that 

i. The blackmail that would be invoked was about Austrian Chancellor Ernst Streeruwitz (1874-1952).

ii. All attacks on Ajit over the last decade would be used together by the Global Communists.

iii. Ajit had enacted the 'Austrian severance' through a letter he wrote to Anjali in the early 1970s. 

Antara had come across that letter in 2006, when her parents were shifting homes, she had not known that Ajit had a nickname for Anjali he didn't otherwise use, calling her 'my joo' (not Anju, which he used in front of others).

iv. Ajit's letter was highly passionate, he had written, "My Joo, my very own Joo, what was coming between us, these lengthy stays of yours in Asansol, any chance to go away to your own relations, what have I done wrong, what could I do to keep you with me...and if I visited you at NS Road, it was like you couldn't recognise me, so cold, so distant, hurriedly moving away, why, my Joo, why?"

v. Antara didn't want to receive any letter or email from Austria that called her "a Jew", or described her as "cold and distant", or identified Austrian assets within HT that Antara could get in touch with for her purposes.

Antara knew/worked with only three departments within HT--design, colour-correction and pre-press--and while they were heavily-staffed, at least 30-35 men working there, they wouldn't be pleased if Antara was further humiliated, 14 years after leaving HT, by those that read about WWI in the newspapers.

June 1, 2026.

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