What, then, was the purpose of Antara's allusions work? She worked online, she submitted her work to various government offices, in India and elsewhere. If she considered it sensitive, she bought ledger-style notebooks and wrote long-hand. Beginning 2021, Antara's allusions work took 10-11 hours on a daily basis. She never stopped on weekends, she never got a break, not even during her trips to eastern India, she went to bed around 2.30 am, without exception.
What did all of the above achieve for Antara or the country where she stayed?
It was necessary to understand the nature of the 'allusions' work. It was an in-depth reading and understanding of political events, developments in the world of business and commerce, along with war and military matters over the last century. The lease-related details came up in the course of it. However, Antara didn't do research on espionage given how the Indian tycoons felt about Berlin in the 1950s.
It would follow that Antara's work was controlled from somewhere, by groups of individuals, including Indians, that it was about the two World Wars fought in Europe in the first half of the 20th century.
Let's say there were several such systems/groups, and Antara was hooked to a network that offered credible supervision but was outdated, like a discarded fighter jet model that no one used. It would know everything about the World Wars and the Cold War, she'd have regular breakthroughs, she'd be able to inform one and all about it but because it was an 'outdated' and 'outmoded' group, it would neither be able to help her in New Delhi nor in Washington DC. Antara would never get any rewards or privileges for her work.
Antara's peer generation, and those that didn't care about her blog, were hooked to the London-based PR firm. How much could a PR firm achieve? It could keep using its high political clout in every situation till daily life became a crisis, it could make a monster out of JP Morgan to make sure the Treasury never asserted or the lease revived, and given the marathon Biden political career in DC spanning half a century, provide Antara's peers and relatives an advantage that Antara would never be able to match.
If relatives and friends stayed away from Antara, surely they did so for a reason.
March 30, 2025.
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