The blog would be taking a break from politics and war every now and then. It would focus on why Antara shared information free of cost, why she was isolated and tortured in India, and how she could return to a proper livelihood.
Husbands or bridegrooms were 'purchased' in India. There was no love in marriage. Even if there was a family-dictated courtship, parents of men were infinitely superior to parents of women. From business to society to politics, everything was arranged in India as per the dominance of those who had sons. The sons themselves mattered little, what they wanted. Had the sons mattered, change would have been possible within India.
Antara could speak with authority about the 1980s onward, the Bengal milieu she grew up in. All 'purchase' of bridegrooms involved 'TV-fridge-washing machine', the minimum that had to be paid by the bride's parents, along with cash bribes and gold jewellery for a wedding to go through.
Bengali Communists would have you believe it meant 'Ukraine-Titanic-hawala' but such explanations were merely about fooling the West. Those Indian women who lived in the West were the most forceful upholders of 'purchase of husbands'.
Antara's parents or Antara herself didn't 'purchase' her husband. She married for love, free of cost, her married home was built on her journalist's salary, and that of her husband. More on that in some later post, there was "not a speck of dust in their married home" that was not their very own.
The problems around not 'purchasing a husband' had apparently started as soon as Antara got married, around 2006. Kolkata took the blame, but over the last few years, Antara's allusions work revealed that every political party in India and endless business tycoons were of the opinion that such a marriage, where a woman built her own married home through love and hard work and tireless effort, should not have taken place in India.
Endless analysts and their allusions/information indicated that Antara and her husband were kept trapped in India to teach them a lesson for a marriage of love. That was all there was to it, WWII and its intrigues were mere hokum, pursued by...you guessed it right, an Indian woman called Kamala Harris.
Antara's parents didn't believe in 'purchasing' a husband. They were spare in their lifestyle, and when Antara called them Calvinist in their religious beliefs, they agreed. As was Antara's husband. No matter their past, a life dedicated to what was expected of them, without greed or violence or excess, was something they were all proud of.
April 25, 2025.
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