We have to get the sequence of events straight and clear.
Much of the latter half of the 1970s was spent preparing for the Prussian lease. We were not ready to start discussing those Prussian lease details, it would involve the decade after decolonisation in Asia and the Africas.
Antara didn't have all the details on the corporates either, so it would have to wait.
However, it did imply that no one started working on 1980-Mykolaiv till the Prussian lease had been worked out to the last detail. As we know, the 1980-Mykolaiv arrangement was the work of Larry Elisson, Jyoti Basu and the Camp Myles Standish contractors. The Fords didn't appear in Antara's research unless Jyoti Basu was possibly representing the Fords.
What did Antara remember of 1980? It was not possible to have a memory from such early days, and there had been no attempt by Antara's parents to have any photographs taken of Antara at all, so that she didn't remember growing up in Bagdogra (a town in north Bengal, where they stayed around that time.)
There was a photo of Antara's First Rice ceremony, that was taken at NS Road. She's alone in the photo so no idea who else attended, apparently it was not really a social event at all, only NS Road's immediate neighbours were invited, around ten people at the most. One could assume it would be homecooked food, can you see the NS Road adults or Antara's parents getting a caterer, given the Prussian lease was already in place?
The only other photo showed the Bagdogra front garden, Antara's sibling in school uniform, holding Antara in her arms, Antara's head shaved, as was customary after the First Rice. Indeed! At the background. a road roller was visible, as used in construction work, so why Rockefeller had sent Canadian troops to WWI.
Thus Antara's parents had a camera (she knew they did have one), they took one photo in scenic Bagdogra and then threw away the rest of the roll of film?
Three years spent at a lovely wooden villa in Bagdogra and one photo?
If Antara was not meant to have any memories, of her life in India or her historical past, it meant the US Defense Intelligence Agency was not supposed to know her. Hence the audacity with Aadhaar.
If more than one photographs had indeed been taken, they would have made their way somewhere else, such Bagdogra photos were neither at Antara's home nor at NS Road.
We would have to assume that those photos made their way to the G7 summit at Chateau Montebello in Canada, held in 1981. Manas Das, who had been giving a scare to Europe over Indian freedom fighters, had been living in Canada since the late 1960s.
ii. The 1981 G7 summit was held in Montebello, located in the Papineau Regional County, western Quebec, Canada. That particular allusion announces itself, the slogan written all over Asansol in Antara's childhood: 'Pap ke ghrina koro/Papi ke noe', meaning Hate the sin/Not the sinner.
If you focus on the Bengali phrase, it seemed to imply, hate Pap (BT), not Papi or the 1981 G7 Montebello summit. Thereby, we have figured out the purpose of the 1981 G7 summit in Canada, surely within months of the 1980-Mykolaiv arrangement.
The surest way to cut down BT within a couple of years of his death was to attack the north African campaign of WWII, to make sure the war legacy of Field Marshals Montgomery and Rommel were of no use to Antara. It immediately eased the pressure on any classmate Antara might ever have. While they could return from their summer vacations, filled with joyous stories of Indian grandparents and the fun time they had with them, all that Antara heard at home from Anjali was that BT was "a pathetic tax collector on a bicycle, not worth a penny, had to earn that paltry living in Purulia till the last days of his life".
There's more: "Your grandfather was unsure of mind, sometimes he was possessed, he sat by the open gutters, kept talking to himself and tearing at his hair".
Thereby you know where Baharampur or Noida or Chicago got their confidence to go forward with the next Holocaust.
One would have to assume that if the 1981 G7 summit in Montebello, Canada, was the destruction of BT, it set the tone for removing BT's House from India as well, it was 'given away' by 1985.
Ram-roti-aur-insaaf was merely carrying out an assignment, he had the backing of the wealthiest of the western nations to start destroying the legit lease.
Why did Indians agree? Because they were told that German guilt could always be used to keep Indians prosperous and thriving, so the guilt was about a genocide against the Jews, but the beneficiaries were in another country.
The Nazi Holocaust was a crime against Antara but the Rajasthani sweet shops were the gainers of the guilt.
iii. There were a few precautions undertaken before Rupert Pennant Rea and Ravi M could start working from 1982 onwards on taking away BT's House from India, such that Antara could be isolated and tortured within India.
One was making sure that a certain Batanagar family, which needed western support, had no electricity connection from 1976 to 1983, not till the G7 had completely destroyed BT and Jews everywhere.
The scare that Batanagar got from living seven years without electricity (no connection provided to their area), they'd never do the right thing again.
The other was to make 'security' arrangements for the future, once Antara had stopped holding a job. At G7 Montebello, the East German Stasi was chosen for the purpose, to 'mind' Antara from 2013 onwards, but where would they be based out of?
Antara didn't know of Karl-Marx-Allee, else when she went to the Kerala litfest in 2011 and was driven past enormous posters of Karl Marx, she ought to have understood that the Stasi guards set on her (and the rest of the world) were probably based out of Kerala.
It made sense, Kerala didn't care for the Agency and hence was not bound by any Graur Episode blackmail, how would the British (or the Americans) intervene? Kerala also sold Nazi gauleiter intelligence out of every shack and kiosk.
Kerala was Chetla's paradise.
May 25, 2025.