The Visit: What's the agenda?

No one was even trying to pretend that it was anything but a visit by a successful Indian woman, 'success' defined in purely Indian terms. Either the US embassy was wise enough to stay away or had been shunned.

Antara had been advised that the purpose of the visit was to discuss the timeliness and accuracy of the allusions work. 

i. Why did officials in the US who had never met her or seen her care whether she had top-grade information about the interests of the US Govt?

ii. In encouraging a studious intellectual life within a marriage, what was the message being sent out to Indian women? Had they fallen short in some manner, though they worked in every sector, from being astronauts to global bureaucracy?

iii. Did no one in Washington DC buy the Ethiopia vs Senegal debate over the legit lease support and the Morgans? (Hence Railway Minister went to receive.)

iv. Why did Washington DC find it difficult to believe that the lower socioeconomic classes in India might worship the NRIs, for setting an example, instead of a fat document enacted and adopted in the Constituent Assembly in New Delhi, back in 1949-50?

In the scenario that was emerging, a certain amount of hostility was to be expected between the US and India, not merely over tariffs, not over the legit lease but over unresolved issues. As understood, Asansol AG Church had the duty to annoy and cause bother, the IITians were the main attacking force for the NRIs.

v. Unresolved issues were questions over the United States' delayed entry into World War I and Austria (so no Aadhaar and no employment for Antara in this lifetime, in all likelihood.)

vi. The other unresolved issue was the unlikely outcome of World War II, FDR actually wanted the German Nazis to be defeated and hanged at Nuremberg?

Antara knew the answer to the WWII problem: it was Grand Mufti al-Husseini's secret plans to grab the lease with Hitler, then turn the Jews out of Europe that had enraged legit lease supporters everywhere. Only Goring had not supported the plan, hence the Acharyas were close to Antara. 

vii. Towards the end of the visit, the Rashmela Purulia family would come up. This was a perennial problem, if they knew more about Graur Episode than British intelligence? Why had they called Brother 4 or Gaur as 'Nau-da', to indicate Nauders, in Tyrol, Austria? They wanted everyone to know the exact location of the legit lease support within Austria?

It would be decided at conclusion that it was best to involve infantry units and later some Marines for NRI lease purposes. There was hardly any need to mentor new groups of Agency officials in lease-related work.

April 21, 2025.