Antara got initial hints of the House around 2017 or so, before she learnt her narrative. "Trump was your father's guy, he has taken the White House for some archival research on behalf of your father". If this was a reference to BT's House, then it couldn't be Antara's father who had propped up Trump. Thus, 'Antara's father' implied Bengali men of Kolkata.
In 2025, Antara worried every day about what information the Trumps were still rummaging through within the House, unless Trump was done in the first term itself. One was her list of allusions, not merely what she quoted here, in public posts and emails, but the process by which she arrived at them. No one was supposed to know how she worked, remember Antara and her husband didn't get visitors, no relative showed interest or asked inquisitive questions.
All those measures to protect the identity of ordinary individuals (in India) who worked to prevent another Holocaust, probe the previous Holocaust or officials (in other countries) who have pursued such investigative projects.
When Antara stepped out, and it was becoming increasingly difficult for her even to visit the shops next-door without severe attacks, she saw her previous day's work all over the place. The names of people whose work she was using, the ideas and tropes, it was like someone had emptied out the information on Delhi streets.
Around 2000-01, Kolkata was already aware that the Trumps would cause mayhem through the House. Kolkata felt that it was about creating permanent Holocaust fears within the justice delivery mechanism of the United States. The more the latter feared, there would be less room for maneuver for the Indian Government, given the risks were coming from India.
The more the Indian Government became a constricted entity, the Treasury would focus on nothing but instability episodes. You could impose reciprocal tariffs, tear up bilateral trade agreements, impose conditionalities on Europe, burn through global trade and commerce, the Treasury wouldn't react.
Guess who'd be picking up the tab when she got contacted and was employed again? Yours truly.
The following had come up in the course of Antara's work:
"A woman in severe crisis (Antara), by herself, had found BT's grim and forbidding House. She didn't demur, not once, that she'd rather not inherit it, and she picked up all its causes, from the Bidens to Fred Trump, from Auschwitz to Zinoviev...
...Between BT and AT, the former had borne a much larger part of the crisis, especially the complete destruction of the lease given BT's frightful knowledge of the Holocaust".
April 3, 2025.
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