Officials across the world have spent much time analysing why the Bengalis of Kolkata were so bothered, and as consequence, so obsessed with the lease family's Ukraine stint. Why was it such an outrage to pass through a country, one had to stay somewhere?
The reasons were not difficult to find, especially in the context of a conflict, when one would end up discussing the Ukrainian Ground Forces. The Ground Forces traced its ancestry to the Ukrainian People's Republic, the army as it existed between 1917 to 1922.
The Ukrainian ethos was shaped by German intelligence, it would later be part of the Soviet Union. If you kept weakening Germany through a century's assault and Russia through its pointless hostility with the West, then Ukraine would be the gainer, a combination of German mental agility and Russian brute might, how nice, in a neat little package!
Those were volatile years as well, 1917, when the Russian Empire collapsed, bringing Kolkata into the Russian political scene. And 1922, when the Chauri Chaura incident (burning down of a police station with people inside) in India's Gorakhpur district dealt the first real setback to the fledgling Indian independence movement.
Ukraine had been making a point against those behemoths of nation-states all through, no one seemed to care enough to notice.
When a problematic conflict situation like the Russia-Ukraine War turned out to be an interrogation of global democracies and nation-states, then individuals like Antara were bound to suffer, as she did from 2021-22 onwards, under the torture-surveillance.
Not that the Mumbai tycoons would want her to know immediately that in the Ukrainian Ground Forces, Antara faced a formidable enemy. Had she ever contacted Ukrainians, she would have had an interaction with those that showed deference, because their 'script' asked them to show respect to traditional currencies.
If Antara had managed to meet the Ukrainian military's higher-ups, they would have shown aristocratic behaviour, reminding her of Prussia.
Kolkata often got the theory right but couldn't manage the nitty-gritty, whether Swati would feel jealous or Bukun would get upset started dominating the discourse. Thus, Antara met no one.
How many of us understood that Zelensky and lackeys were fighting for bitcoin and crypto? How many of us realised that the slanging match at the Oval Office between Trump and Zelensky was being followed by the global tariff war, that these were connected episodes?
How much had the US Congress spent on Zelensky's heroism over the last three years so that the latter could promote cryptocurrency and finish off the US dollar? Would the US Congress have the patience to see itself through the rest of it, as Ukraine began ignoring the journalist-suddenly-turned-financier?
This brought us to how Indian women, home and hearth people like Mrs VP, suddenly got interested in global politics and wars. Indian women apparently hated the British because of the trigonometrical Survey of India, which created maps for Indian territories.
Since the 1980s, they had been taught that it was because the British 'sold' Survey of India maps and information in a certain way to Washington DC that the lease and currency kept gaining ground. Else, the lease would have perished in the 19th century itself. You'd wonder how Indian women would pay for things, barter system?
In the present day, apparently it was the Arts and Humanities students who supported the lease (except those like Chetla, who have risen above the Arts). Arts students didn't get gainful employment, always hung around governments, trying to get easy desk jobs and hence there was no end to the lease.
What were Information Technology jobs like? Not on a desk? Highly physical and strenuous activities that didn't require the lease?
April 10, 2025.
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