The following was to be categorised as a 'medical emergency' blogpost. The local medicine shops were refusing to sell the medication required by Antara. They had even got "sugar-free" versions, and Antara didn't buy those. She was advised that it was the most ferocious attack on European royal families by Chetla.
"Chetla was challenging the Europeans on the death of British fashion designer Alexander McQueen in 2010, who had passed away at age 40, soon after his mother's death. Your blogpost has to resolve any questions or doubts about Anjali, whether she was devoted to her family or not."
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One of the problems Anjali was facing in distinguishing herself from NS Road was the 1990s War in the Balkans.
The previous blogpost ('Alaska aftermath: Why those tough decisions had to be taken', August 17) had ended with the suggestion that Clinton and the Bosnian War be mentioned within the Pentagon to see how the latter reacted, those Pentagon officials who had known that the sharpest mind in India, as Anjali was then, was altogether flabbergasted by the events in the Balkans.
As it happened, the NRIs and Bengalis in Kolkata were always insecure about the Clintons, they regarded the Aug 17 blogpost as a declaration of war against the Clintons and more or less collapsed the world through August 17-18, 2025.
Anjali was anxious that such a vicious war would erupt in the Balkans, a region with a long coastline and what had provided the only naval existence for the landlocked Austrian Habsburgs. If the entire Balkan War became about the US Navy trying to hurt the lingering Austrian influence in the coastal areas of the Balkans, she'd be taking most of the blame. "Maybe they'd even think that I married into the lease family to pursue German naval domination or Nazi German naval commander Karl Donitz's monarchical ambitions would be probed."
Anjali never considered the Balkan War to be about Antara's contact-corroboration. A Caucasian identity was difficult to maintain in India unless you were part of the colonial administration. You have to become the same as the Indian people, else the kind of vainglorious attitude the IAS officers had in India, encouraged by J Edgar Hoover (of the FBI), they'd create serious trouble for those who were of foreign descent but Indian citizens.
Thus, the only explanation of the Balkan War of the 1990s was that CPUSA was not pleased with Communism in the districts of Bengal. (Antara later found out it was called "consult and insult", where you held discussions among your own and agreed to vote for the Communist parties.)
The CPM had not wanted such landslide mandates, it didn't need the political Opposition to disappear in Bengal and it felt the Bengal districts were mocking them. "Aren't we all the same, those from elite Kolkata and the impoverished, lowly peasant families from Bengal? Surely we had the same agenda, so we gathered around the same leader."
By the end of the 1990s, Anjali had understood that Reinhard Heydrich's influence within the Pentagon was creating militias within, that such a militia-like attitude would have little respect for the Allied Commanders of WWII, that Operation Market Garden would become the rallying cry for such officials, that Op Market Garden failed because Allied Commanders were more concerned that north Kolkata's influence should not permeate Bengal's districts than about winning WWII.
Given what NS Road had done with Gupta on cryptocurrency and weapons inspectors, while avoiding the females of the household, Anjali wouldn't be able to solve the Pentagon's Heydrich problem.
August 18, 2025.
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