These would be the challenges for any specialised group that was dealing with Los Alamos intelligence:
i. How would you accommodate Kolkata into the picture, given it neither used nuclear energy for civilian purposes nor had any prominent nuclear physicist, enacting certain families that avoided the Manhattan Engineering District?
(Given the North Korean nuclear programme had started in 2006, the year Antara got married, Kolkata could at least have been made to host an annual nuclear conference, maybe of Indian scientists, over the last couple of decades. Surely it was not getting away as unconnected to the proliferation regime?)
ii. Have you not been able to figure out the events from August 1945 (Hiroshima-Nagasaki) to October 1946 (Pratibha's death), why else were Antara's relatives becoming more forceful against her?
(It was about Bedzin in Poland, there had been some betrayal against the Treasury from that area, more damaging than the Auschwitz interrogations. It probably hastened the demise of Antara's paternal grandmother, she blamed Ethiopia. There may have been incidents of a serious nature, but when Kolkata wanted her to blame Charles Tegart in Palestine, why did she blame Ethiopia?)
iii. Were you not being able to proceed with the Allied invasion of Italy (WWII), given the intelligence had to be bought at a high cost, the novelist sorts acting as a conduit?
(You should never buy intelligence against yourself, the Axis would end up convincing you that the Preliminary Hearings of the Nuremberg Trials was based on faulty military intelligence. Kolkata's legal fraternity would immediately tear at the rest of the Nuremberg Trials.
Where would Indians go, join the Axis?
Except the Partition, India was fortunate, its independence was preceded by many important bilateral negotiations. Such countries were difficult to fell, but only as long as the Nuremberg Trials prevailed.)
iv. Antara's advice: Follow Dreamfolks, a Gurgaon-based airport services provider, present in 121 countries. At least one would know what Jadavpur University was thinking about WWII or even about Ajit-Anjali.
July 12, 2025.
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