It was generally believed that the torture-surveillance had started from 2006 itself, as soon as Antara had started living apart from her parents, as a journalist in Kolkata. But we were still not in a position to discuss it, or who had benefitted from it.
By early 2019, Antara lived in a different residential block in Delhi than the one now, and suddenly, she had lost the right to put out the household trash outside for collection by a civic body employee. These were paid-for services but Reinhard Heydrich's unmarked grave had been desecrated in Feb that year, and Antara could no longer keep the garbage outside the door because of the 'threshold'.
Antara and her husband started buying jumbo-sized garbage bags, they kept it inside their home for 10-15 days at a stretch till it filled up, then Antara's husband lugged it to a garbage vat, some ten minutes' walk from their residential block, a chore which no one else had to do.
Given the Skripal poisoning and related incidents in Britain, the threat was serious. Else why would Heydrich's grave desecration be connected to garbage disposal?
Even that garbage disposal vat outside was removed and replaced with an Amul dessert/dairy store. But Antara and her husband were moving by then, and it didn't matter.
April 16, 2025.
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