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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