Some of us have been wondering why Delhi was cited so often, apart from being the city where Antara stayed. There was a Big Red One living in Delhi, some city-dwellers didn't like him, Antara obviously didn't. Hence.
Back to the lease and also what Antara disliked discussing, the blessed House, now with the Trumps. The Big Red One was involved in handing over the House to the Palace back in the mid-1980s, when Antara was waiting for her imagined carpentry shop to come up in her school.
The lease proceeded only one way: headed by the Morgans, seconded by the lease family, assisted by US State Dept officials who were 'experts' in handling the Long Telegram blackmail. Between the Palace and the Big Red One, the first thing they did was to embargo the US State Department from assisting the above process. It was blamed on Shili-Lokkhi, it was nothing of the sort, merely CPUSA doing the needful to assist Communist causes.
In 2025, it was just as well, since Antara didn't want any US State Department official to get involved in the Long Telegram business, now that she knew it was about the Nazi Holocaust and protecting BT from its aftermath. Why did BT need protection, wasn't he a victim of the Holocaust? You get the logic, given the AT Das family still lived in Purulia, Antara's close relations, which US State Department official would care for them?
Our best friend Doug didn't want us to find out any of the above, definitely not the US State Department part, to save his wife's career. Antara was not the first to wonder why Doug's wife got involved in Asansol AG Church, as soon as the Big Red One gave away the House to the Palace.
Delhi thought it was to make an 'island' of Asansol AG Church, no other school in India was attacked that way, and then to challenge the US Navy. Antara's mother thought it was to gather German intelligence that was flowing into the school, from good sources. Certain groups in Silicon Valley thought it was to promote Chinese intelligence's clout on the school, it would not be possible to discern it from Bengali Communism.
Antara could never have any sorbet as dessert, even if she made it at home. She thought Doug and his wife recommended Agency officials who were good with the legit lease, turned them over to the Big Red One in Delhi and he kept them to himself. Thus, Antara's work never progressed in the least.
April 2, 2025.
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