A useful Iranian regime

What was the purpose of keeping those like Antara in India at all?

India had never been to war with the United States, so she was not a Prisoner of War.

The agenda that AAP was meant to pursue, the Prussian fraudulent lease using Sheffield, was a complicated political maneuver. It meant Sheffield lobbyists in DC would get primacy, say, if the Fordo facility in Iran was destroyed. 

As had been pointed out to Antara, "The destruction of Fordo would be read as a Prussian assertion, not an Israeli one, based on the kind of Israel-related discussions that Ajit had with Close Female Relative in Mumbai, in the final months of his life. It would empower the Alamo Girl within the Pentagon, it would put Moqtada al-Sadr away from the spotlight".

The above argument was borne out by the news coverage, which showed videos of Iraqis celebrating as Iranian missiles hit various parts of Tel Aviv. As and when Donald Trump cleared retaliation, both Iran and Iraq would thereby be hit and defeated. Those who could have provided or already had provided information on the Alamo Girl's role in the Iraqi insurgency would retreat, the Iraqi Civil War would be forgotten, along with the US Marines who fought it.

That was how Indian women worked, a magical way in which they managed to avoid any scrutiny of their activities.

ii. If Antara's status was not that of a POW, then it might be that of a volunteer corps but given she was always alone, it seemed like a one-woman volunteer corps. 

For it was fairly obvious that the spouse's regard for western music, including western classical music, or for European New Wave cinema, was not a regard for western countries or their culture. Such music, such movies from the West were spoon-fed in Kolkata's schools and colleges, to familiarise Kolkatans with western culture and to allow them to dissemble when they went abroad.

It was also a challenge. Kolkata was familiar with every aspect of western culture. Was the West familiar with how Kolkata felt, what was its agenda?

iii. As a one-woman volunteer corps, Antara was not formally attached to any western institution, whether cultural (Antara didn't even know their names, except a few museums), or military (which had been indifferent to Antara when she had been isolated at home or school) or political (given Antara was always at loggerheads both with the White House in DC and 10 Downing Street).

Volunteer corps members like Antara were often traded between countries, whereby the Indian Govt might have been approached, "We have a PR campaign to run, could we borrow Antara, an Indian resident, since you obviously didn't need her?"

The Indian Govt would immediately refuse, since it implied consultancy work and an income for Antara. Wouldn't AAP object, what was the purpose of Aadhaar if not to punish Antara with few clothes to wear and starvation?

Volunteer corps were often pushed back into areas whose causes they were cheering. It seemed to be the only recourse left, if fed up with Antara, the authorities asked the West to take her back.

June 20, 2025.  

For though we were strangers...

The following was apparently ACJ and Asansol AG Church's opinion about the intellectual capacity of Antara. Consider it important, these groups mattered to establishment figures, both politicians and foreign and Indian tycoons.

Antara would have been sceptical about accepting other people's opinions about their shy, introverted classmates but tycoons were often in a hurry, they did not have time to consider what was hasty or misjudged.

i. "Antara was brilliant but in flashes".

As compared to the sustained brilliance of ACJ or any other global personality? One of the ACJ faculty members had told Antara in 2008, a couple of years after she finished her journalism course, "It was not just the back-benchers, it was the bulk of the ACJ class, it was not clear why they were there." It was worth considering, mostly ACJ graduates didn't pursue journalism.

Why would you say "flashes of brilliance"? Were you not aware of British intelligence, the way it pursued physical and psychological attacks against individuals and groups, what it did to hinder the natural personality of people? Antara, for example, lost her parents, her pet dog and the right to visit her hometown within one year. It shaped a person, that kind of brutal behaviour.

ii. "When she stood out, it was because the outfits that were 'managing' her didn't offer her covert or overt support. They did that to make a big deal of her genuine, sincere efforts, to discredit what the KGB had done within Silicon Valley".

What a complicated accusation! The Prussians, who were useful in turning Silicon Valley into a KGB den, disliked Antara for her sincere efforts? Just think how close it came to Antara. There were anecdotes from those around Antara, Close Female Relative remarking, "You have such tenacity, you never give up".

What horror was in store for those that never gave up? Why was never giving up wrong? Why didn't it apply to the Prussians? The Prussian lobby and the Curzon lobby would have the Fordo facility in Iran deep bombarded, then have Israeli troops move in, just to make sure Antara gave up? 

It was just "flashes of brilliance", yet it needed a 30,000-pound bomb?

iii. "The intellectual brilliance disappeared if you put her within a House, then the arrangements between Polabi and Hradec Kralove and Sleza Valley became obvious, that their Communism had been fake, how they only wanted to preserve the lease, how they discredited anyone with Yemeni connections."

Fake Communism was a crime? What was the punishment? Putin would invade all the way up to Czechia? Let him to do so, rather than the smug overconfidence of those where Antara lived.

Apparently, the purpose of all of it was to find out where Antara's research work connected to Ukrainian intelligence work. 

Ukraine, central Europe, these were the criminals. Yemen was not.

June 19, 2025.

After Ken, some Krishna

Had Supriya Paul always worked for Asansol AG Church, whatever she did against the legit lease and Poland? It was generally assumed that the death of VK Krishna Menon in 1974, the year Supriya got married, brought her closer to Douglas Hurd, who was beginning his political career as a Parliamentarian in 1974, as a representative of the mid-Oxfordshire constituency.

As far as Antara knew, Asansol AG Church was not yet an affiliated high school in the early 1970s, no one wrote their Class 10 Board exams from that schools, the future of the school might have been in crisis till Supriya herself got affiliated to a Britisher who had a long, influential political career ahead of him.

Most of Antara's Asansol AG classmates were from Kolkata. They despised Asansol, somehow attending school and rushing off to Kolkata, with their school textbooks and holiday homework, the moment school gave over for a lengthy vacation. Often, their parents would wait with packed luggage, waiting for their wards to come home, change out of their school uniform and leave for Kolkata (some had other home districts.)

What Antara had not known, since her parents never alerted her to the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews, was that most of her classmates harboured those very prejudices that had caused the Holocaust in Europe. They discussed Antara with their relatives in Kolkata, those relatives forwarded the complaints to Supriya Paul (these were the 1980s and 1990s), who processed it and sent it along to Douglas Hurd. 

Prejudice often ran counter to facts. When Supriya finally met Antara (from 2000 to 2024), she saw little resemblance to the Jewish caricature, the 'demon' she had attacked all her life.

But the damage couldn't be undone. In trying to destroy a life for Antara, a future for Antara, Supriya had constantly attacked western militaries. Douglas Hurd, for his part, had a well-known distaste for the military, he had hated his days as a conscript, disparaged the life in the barracks, discouraged the restoration of National Service in Britain. 

The demonisation of Antara within Kolkata made her marriage untenable. It was obvious that the spouse would rather believe the propaganda of Kolkata's Holocaust perps, the woman he had married had become a has-been, an also-ran, defeated by the larger forces within New Delhi.    

Worse, ACJ had a fawning admiration for VK Krishna Menon, which made Antara's spouse have a much warmer relation with ACJ sorts than Antara would ever have. 

Thus, the household Antara inhabited was a marriage of Asansol AG Church, the spouse and ACJ, managed by Douglas Hurd. Antara was the extra, the unnecessary person in it.

June 18, 2025. 

Was there any American in the US Govt, Ken?

Antara sometimes wondered if she should visit the US embassy in New Delhi. Its offices often had facilities for weekly movie shows, probably proclaiming that if the US Govt was still running its embassies across the world, it was because the lease family remained trapped in India, and no US agency would take corrective steps to redress that horrifying hostage situation.

The weekly movie show was the US embassy in India doffing its hat to the Indian royals, "without you, we wouldn't have been able to pull off this heist".

What if there was time travel? What if we could go back in time to the early 1960s and then visit the US embassy in New Delhi? John Kenneth Galbraith was the US ambassador at that point, maybe say a casual 'hi' to him, "Hey Ken, there's a country called Poland, heard of it?" 

Galbraith, Chester Bowles, such hallowed names in New Delhi. Their memories evoked in Indian elite circles, with quiet reverence, a certain wistfulness, those US ambassadors who taught Delhi how to subjugate Europe, how to punish Poland and Ukraine, those that would help reduce the Pentagon to smithereens.

Galbraith was not even an American, he was apparently from Canada. Maybe even Chester Bowles wasn't one, the name sounded like a Nizami intrigue from Hyderabad. You understand what we meant that most Americans have not stayed in the US before 1918? That was the United States Govt, recently immigrated to the US and completely unaware of American history. Anything before the 1940s, and you'd get that look of incomprehension on their faces.

So Galbraith and Bowles, American or not, valuable as long as they could manipulate the US Govt.

ii. Let's say, like Galbraith, Antara was not an American. Antara sets up an office and starts instructing the locals on how to cheat the United States of its lease or any other serious financial arrangement. Would she get a warning, a legal notice, a severance information or what? Would the local cops show up at her door? And yet the local cops never warned Galbraith, 'don't use the US embassy grounds to conspire against the United States'.

Antara had studied English Literature. Like Rathindranath Tagore, Galbraith had studied Agriculture. Not really a 'scientific' subject and yet Antara's blogs were not worth a dime but whatever 'truth' came forth from Galbraith's mouth was worth celebrating.

iii. Galbraith was the support system of NS Road and several Close Female Relatives. What made the Canadian Galbraith so special, those that regularly kicked Ajit around like he was some joke? That Ajit was an engineer and technically qualified, a STEM professional, and Galbraith studied the easier Arts subjects was not a factor?

Well, Galbraith apparently camped at Harvard for several decades. What was he doing there, using his intuitive powers to figure out the 1858 lease-signing, which took place at Harvard? Galbraith was born in 1908, there couldn't have been intelligence on the lease left at Harvard by the time he started living there. 

(The way it was managed, you signed the lease, within a few years, the building where it was signed was demolished, the few people involved dispersed. No intelligence was ever available on the lease, as a result.)

That was NS Road's ticket to glory. An agricultural graduate, who managed the American version of FCI godowns and warehouses during WWII, a couple of years in New Delhi as US ambassador. 

In India, we didn't have agriculture graduates who could manage godowns and warehouses? We had to get Canadian heroes, and then warn Antara, "Gupta was seriously going after the Treasury and the Pentagon?"

June 17, 2025.

The G7 Summit: Would Aadhaar come up, or US-Global South friendship after 9/11?

The moment you mentioned hand-picked Treasury officials, several billion people ran towards the assurance of having (certain) global financiers on their side.

Did these people decide that the role of financiers was an important part of their existence? Or did some of the relatives around Antara make it so, keep using your favourite financiers to weaken the global economy, till the Germans started providing the Oste fleet service ships or till NATO reserved some Apache helicopters for personal use. 

Thus, whatever be the circumstances, do keep thwarting the global economy at all times, at all costs, an economy of which India used to be a part.

Supriya Paul cared for nothing but financiers, never mind the cost, the way it empowered women. 

You bargain (with financiers), Ajit had asked Antara, showing surprise. Why not, no decent financier would enter the global scene till ACJ was understood, why it relied on Prussians and if it did so, why it admitted Antara? What if it was themed on Auschwitz, the 2005-2006 batch started its classes less than two months after Cousin Buna perished with her family?

Surely someone ought to investigate any possible Bunawerke-Monowitz angle at ACJ before the financiers started pouring their money into the global economy?

The Close Female Relation, of course, was so dependent on financier support that she wouldn't even run any checks on them, lest it upset the Treasury arrangements made for her benefit during Mr Summers' days.

ii. You might say these attitudes came from obscure British entities, that those around Antara didn't have any thought process or instincts of their own. Antara's close relations pulled complicated global blackmails against her all the time. In 2007, Anjali had visited her in Kolkata for a couple of days, Antara had made a light fish curry for lunch. Anjali didn't have a problem but Ajit kept screaming over the phone, "You ate fish on Saturday?" 

In Bengal, Saturday was observed as Stanley Lord blackmail day and for heaven's sake, Anjali, did you actually want the US Marine Corps to take a closer look at Stanley Lord, what was real and what was fiction, what had been thwarting the world for over a century?

iii. The Close Female Relation was terrified of eating with Antara or being anywhere close to her during mealtimes. Say it was December 2010, Ajit had just passed away, they were completing the necessary paperwork and would have to have lunch at a hotel, the Close Female Relation would pretend a headache and stay away. 

The Close Female Relation visiting Antara in Delhi in 2013 or 2014, Antara had a cook back then, who had made fish curry. Every time the Close Female Relation sat down to a meal, phone calls started coming with dire news, she'd leave the meal unfinished and run away. 

It didn't seem to the authorities that in a somewhat smoothly running country like India, as it was then, such secrecy, such urgency, such dismissal of Antara's courteous arrangements was a sign of imminent trouble? Who were these Close Female Relations, why were they so important that they didn't have time to finish a meal?

Why did such behaviour start after the 9/11 attacks, what if Antara's close relations were being roped in by British desks who had been involved in the 9/11 attacks but now wanted to share the blame with others?

iv. How would Kolkatans have felt, when they had occasionally invited Antara to a meal through 2024, if she left it unfinished and ran away? Oh yes, Antara didn't have Aadhaar or spending powers, how could she run away? Government regulations have first ensured obedience and servitude, only then had she been asked to a meal. It was like taking a domestic pet on a leash to someone's house, the way Antara's spouse and herself socialised. 

Had the Americans not become so fond of the Global South after the 9/11 attacks, not any of the above would have happened. The Americans were another culture not speaking the truth either about democracy or WWII or the Nuremberg Trials. 

Given how comfortable the Americans felt around Germans after 1945, the Nuremberg Trials must have rankled. 

June 16, 2025.  

The G7 begins!! What if Milei couldn't prevail in Canada?

Indian royals: "We have to control the foreign intelligence agency of the United States, right from the beginning. It couldn't be allowed to get started on its own."

The British: "You need a specialised outfit for that."

Indian royals: "What about your Hackney Jews? Wouldn't that give you a Judeo-Christian ethos, what lets someone usurp the lease from Poland?"

The British: "We do have a Judeo-Christian ethos but we need to protect the British royal family. Only Britain and Japan could have royal families, the Tagores were clear about that."

Indian royals: "What do you suggest, apart from keeping the Vatican under control?"

The British: "We have to create a complicated religious mix, so that the United States was unable to command the loyalty of its citizens when it came to foreign intelligence, they'd get divided along Christian denomination lines. We have this guy, Richard Oscar Darre, he was born in Berlin a little before the American Civil War. We didn't use his family (during the Civil War), he had French ancestry but was a German Protestant."

Indian royals: "What would Richard Oscar Darre do?"

The British: "Set up base in Argentina, obviously, couldn't you see the Habsburgs were so sure of preserving the United States Govt because they were sure of South America? You send a hardcore German Protestant group to Argentina, the British would send a hidden Prussian line there as well (they were called the Roberts family) and north Kolkata could send some of theirs, maybe from the Rani Rashmoni household."

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Antara had completed the above work in 2024. As it happened, the Roberts-Darre-north Kolkata grouping couldn't make much headway in the lease business. They suggested setting up a high school in England and using it control the foreign intelligence of the United States.

It was quite unlikely the Agency was going the way of US Steel.

June 15, 2025. 

Ahead of the G7 summit: Antara's lease

The G7 summit was supposed to take place between June 15-17, 2025 in Canada.

Ahead of the G7 summit, Antara would like to formally propose her lease. 

Antara's lease would focus on human rights (for all) and a cleaner environment (for all). 

All intellectual discourse would have to abide by these two overheads, the humanities/liberal arts topics towards human rights and the scientific topics towards a cleaner, cooler planet.

Antara's lease proposals would be publicly shared, mostly, unless there was reason for withholding information. Given the volumes of information, it would take at least half a decade to complete the lease proposal.

Antara has decided to leave the Air Force Services of most countries out of her lease proposal. 

Both the United States Air Force (under General David Allvin) and the Royal Air Force (under Sir Richard Knighton) were not required to be part of Antara's lease proposals. 

There was a parallel economy up and running, including cryptocurrency and FAANG. With global warming through pointless aerial maneuvers and an inexplicable career ascendancy, the Air Forces would find it suitable to engage with that economy. 

June 14, 2025.