Did anyone know how the Soviets and later the Russians felt about Antara's existence?
All those discussions, crucial to Numbers blackmail and Poland, detractors wondering why she lived in India, had anyone ever known whether the Russians ever wanted such an individual around?
NS Road felt that that Russians would pretend to care for Antara as long as Ajit was around. It turned out to be accurate, for Antara seemed to have stopped existing 2011 onwards, as soon as Ajit had passed away. The Russians apparently cared for Ajit because he knew the bulk of what Zinoviev had found out about the Obama Project. Antara had no such usefulness nor was a challenge from the Russian perspective.
Yet apparently, the Russians had asked the Indian authorities to somehow keep Antara around, as a pawn for the grab of American defence firms by the Global South.
As the Asansol AG girls would say,
"Thank you very much
You were a magar machh (crocodile)
Don't talk too much."
It sounded apt for the Russians.
ii. One of the ways to deal with any Russian atomic energy programme, including Rosatom from 2007, was to take a bulk of the details and drop it at a Brussels conference, say where European Union leaders had gathered. (There was one such ongoing on June 26.)
When the Europeans found out what the Russians, and therefore the Bengalis of Kolkata, actually thought of them, how those thoughts shaped institutions like Rosatom, then youth and vigour would be visible all over Europe, hopefully a flurry of EU sanctions against Russia as well.
The reason the Agency never adopted the above approach--surprise Brussels with the reality of Moscow and Kolkata's thought process--was our Kamala Gopalan Harris. Rosatom since 2007 had built Kamala, and Antara was not supposed to know that, for it would indicate that there were empty Mykolaiv Houses available for use, that she could have been provided dignity and employment and foreign travel, but Kamala Gopalan Harris was used as an excuse to deny her those things.
Even after all her peers had got every possible privilege, Antara couldn't even be the last person in India to get a job or an Aadhaar.
iii. The above got interesting as we moved towards that much-discussed audit of the United States Government. The one that Sukanta-da was managing? Sukanta-da, always in such a hurry, such a disorganised individual, when he'd notice he hadn't done much background work for such a high-profile global assignment, he'd cripple Antara's lower back, while she was suffering from chronic ailments, and keep adding new reminders of Ukraine, if you knew what was meant.
iv. Seville in Spain was known for its oranges, its 'kamalas'. On June 30, 2025, they'd be gathering in Seville to discuss the fate of debtor countries, which kept servicing their debts and never managed to break free of the debt burden. At that Seville Conference, the Agency and Donald Trump would finally be speaking in one voice, as a unity, the Agency was finally free to do what it wanted, be a comrade with Donald Trump and challenge the US Govt.
The formal name was the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development.
The Seville declaration was to be called 'Compromiso de Sevilla'.
The warning was about an international debt register, so about shaming, making debt records public.
Further warning was about amplifying the 'voices' of the debtor countries. If the US Govt did not capitulate to Trump, Putin and Wool, Jha's anarchy would get much worse in the United States.
The one who couldn't teach properly in a classroom would manage Boeing.
Oh, and we did make queries at the bank about the lost/thrown away credit card, "It was all AI, so it would reach you someday".
The journey to UPI/Paytm supremacy was not an easy one, it took planning and cooperation.
June 26, 2025.
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