Where would Antara go from here?

What advantages had Antara possessed against Kolkata?

From her childhood, she read global news and analysis, as much as was available in India.

Because of certain reasons that couldn't be mentioned, she had a deep understanding of Europe. (Think Austria.)

What was her disadvantage?

No one in a position of leadership, in any part of the world, was willing to support her.

Such leadership would provide support in case Antara was employed again. 

She made much of her marriage, she simply never understood that in thinking it was a marriage, she was making a mistake. Given the Nazi Holocaust, who would marry her in India? 

Hence the hints to her, stop competing with the Obamas, look for a pathetic low-pay copy-editing job. It would have been far easier for the NRIs to take down the United States Govt, instead of mass lay-offs in this US Dept or that, which could be traced back to leadership positions.

ii. India was boasting that those like Antara, who did exceedingly well in their Civil Services Exams, who worked in one national newspaper after another, could be forcefully dragged down. What were its implications? To begin with, it meant India had nothing to fear. 

Given the Civil Services experience was reinforced by denying her Aadhaar, it was possible to drag down a person in India, in full public view, force her to look for degrading employment. 

If the relatives were powerful, you could end up losing your civil and political rights.

The Indian State wouldn't intervene.

When a country took a hardline stance and used State power to humiliate an individual, so that her relatives didn't feel less, 'allusions' was always the answer. 

Antara's 'allusions work' had the support of much of India, we will not identify the reasons, why Indians were supportive of her allusions.

iii. Did Antara stay in Indian cities because there were local intelligence outfits serving her?

After 12 years of AAP in Delhi, (AAP founded in November 2012), the above question would not be answered. The local grocery shops were either always empty or they had been turned into cafes, Antara was also debarred from e-commerce. At one point, the Indian military had considered dropping food packets on to Antara's building, so that she didn't altogether starve.

Had Antara always wanted to work as a journalist in New Delhi?

The above question has been answered, Ajit wanted her to write her Civil Services Exam, become an IAS officer, Antara, however, had chosen the Foreign Service for her UPSC Mains. She thought she had done well in her exam but didn't get the interview call. 

As mentioned earlier, Antara had wanted to go to medical school, from her childhood, which changed in the 1990s to advocacy work for Medecins Sans Frontieres. Antara never shared any of her ambitions and aspirations with her parents, given the way Anjali ran to NS Road to broadcast it, not to mention gossiping about it with her classmates' parents. 

If you ran through Communist Bengal, telling everyone what Antara wanted to do with her life, how would it be realised? Bill Clinton was already US President. 

iv. Thus, the problem was closing in around NRIs. Most Indians supported Antara's allusions work, they let her become highly educated, she had a respectable profession, when suddenly the world turned topsy turvy in 2011. That year, Antara went to JLF, more foreigners gathered there than Indians, like an English town, casual, strolling around, even if the Front Lawn was sponsored by the Tata Group.

Didn't it remind one of the plaza atmosphere in front of the WTC Towers, just before 9/11? At JLF, they were Communists from abroad, mostly Caucasians, but did they not get the irony of winter mornings and afternoons at the Tata Group's Front Lawns?

Thus, the lack of leadership support for Antara's future was becoming somewhat clearly defined. 

The Agency in Europe was protecting 9/11 perps using programmes like SEDE and the European Space Agency's initiatives. Since those in leadership positions knew who were being protected, they didn't have to care for Antara or her allusions.

Antara's knowledge base was increasing, leaders knew it wouldn't generate employment, NATO wouldn't clear it.

v. The above would get interesting. Germany was not one of the Big Five at the United Nations, it didn't have veto powers, it was involved in protecting the identity of 9/11 perps (Germans, British, Russians, others).

You applied 9/11 pressure on Germany, it would rush to the Big Five at the UN, maybe Ursula would do so, and you would have the flood of Afghanistan resolutions, carefully-worded, one after the other, all about BT's House.

The above was not the Pentagon coup?

What would happen when such 9/11 pressures worked everywhere but the Middle East?

That's when the 1957 lease in favour of NS Road would rear its head, under that tall, imposing figure of Gamal Abdel Nasser.

July 12, 2025.