Afghanistan abstention

The Jaipur Literature Festival was always meant to be a gathering for the Global Communist movement, as it planned its attacks on the US intelligence community. 

Indian royals and the Indian political elite would mingle with Europeans, both communists and fascists, dissidents from the Arab world and Americans loyal to the Obama-Clinton machinery. 

Only certain British families would be allowed to discuss BT's House or Afghanistan. 

The intrigues formalised at the Jaipur Literature Festival would last decades, maybe centuries, no one else would be able to understand the arrangements made among the Global Communists.

Antara participating as a media personnel at several successive Jaipur Literature Festivals meant

that the legit lease would also become a party to be considered in global affairs,

that Afghanistan was not a walkover as Nagpur or the Mumbai tycoons hoped it would be (unless the Russians invaded again),

that the Mount Lebanon support for the legit lease couldn't be merely wished away by Rafic Hariri to end the Lebanese Civil War, it set a bad precedent, if you changed/distorted your country's history to solve law and order problems.

Thus, Antara's participation at JLF upset no one but Kim Philby, his idea of how the world should be devised and Antara at JLF thereby upset Philby loyalists. It might include Antara's close relations, many of them. 

ii. Hence the controversy, the endless punishment for Antara, why the Birlas of Kolkata would allow Antara to become a stakeholder in global affairs (through JLF), why they would let her repeatedly visit what was a Global Communist gathering, in those very years when HT was one of JLF's biggest sponsors, hence Antara's stature was proportionately exalted.

Beleghata honcho stayed away from JLF in those years, 2011 and 2012.

Most people assumed that the Birlas were playing an RMS Titanic hand by sending Antara to JLF, given 2012 was the centenary year of the RMS Titanic's sinking. 

It would have been true if the Birlas were minor players in the RMS Titanic business, either testing the US intelligence community or trying to win favours with the British establishment.

But the Birlas were interested in Washington DC, why the Tagores had an endless run there, why the White House's stature was never improved with a competent and able Presidential candidate, why the US intelligence community always had an uneven intelligence persona, dealing with serious topics in an off-hand manner. 

Thus Antara was kept back in India, not to check whether the US President was meant to be advised by the Israelis but to assess the robustness of medieval Europe.

It was assumed that medieval Europe often used Canadian tech companies for its work. If the Birlas were so convinced of Canadian tech involvement, such that they were constantly using Batanagar to warn Antara, it implied that the Birlas never wanted her to become a stakeholder in global affairs, that Antara's JLF participation was misleading.

The Birlas have to convince the world why Antara didn't deserve to be a stakeholder in global affairs. Was she less competent or less educated than the Birla females?

July 10, 2025.