Why would anyone leave DC at all? Because of 'Nordic Noir'?

Questions would obviously arise that if Antara's relatives easily agreed to abandon her and direct their love and affection towards Chetla, if they were people with different moral standards, why wouldn't the US officials make alternative arrangements for her?

If everyone else was so concerned about Antara's well-being, why did they leave her to the mercy of the Pauls and the Bhattacharyas of Batanagar?

It was a partial victory, at least someone had admitted that their moral standards were not often observed within humanity, or even depicted in movies.

There had been plans for Antara, whether they involved posh boarding schools or learning to play the piano were not the point. These plans had a few objectives,

That no wealthy British or French personality would have any influence on her life, the so-called Sound,

That blackmails pertaining to Base Office Berlin and the Berlin Tunnel would not affect her in the least,

That she would be alerted the moment any Nazi scientific invention was used by Indian Communists in Indian engineering colleges.

Let's assume the United States Govt was passing on some Nazi scientific invention, recovered from Germany after WWII, to Birla Insititute of Technology, at Mesra Ranchi (known as BIT Mesra), some equipment or weaponry would be developed from it. Antara's privilege would have been to know about it. Similarly, if the US Govt was passing along some Nazi scientific papers to BITS Pilani, Antara should have been alerted to it.

We were deliberately avoiding a discussion of the IITs, it was known that the IITs were meant to take the blame for a great many wrongs while the intrigues against the Pentagon, the dismissals and the constant sense of impending anarchy, would probably be coming from within the Birla engineering institutes.

In case the Barberini family was involved in any of the above, it was not difficult for them to arrange for a few operatives in Mumbai. There were two women from Mumbai who managed the Pentagon coup episodes, who brought the Pentagon to the brink of armed revolt against the senior officers, these women would provide the blackmails, the supposed Barberini agents would take them to Mesra Ranchi (in Jharkhand) or to Pilani (in Rajasthan).

Vladimir Putin would take the blame.

ii. However, Antara never managed to get the privilege she needed the most, the information about which Indian engineering college was getting which Nazi scientific design, or when the flurry of Nobel Prizes in Economics would be replaced by Indians getting dozens of Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry, over the next few decades.

There were a few things standing in Antara's way. 

Did BT remarry at all? Or was BT's remarriage a metaphor for something else? Think hard, except Ajit-Anjali, have you ever heard anyone else mention BT remarried? 

"Her (Ajit's stepmother's) name was not to be uttered" meant Silence. That was a reference to AAP, not a remarriage. If BT didn't remarry, then the Bankura aunt was a foster relative and not Antara's problem.

J Edgar Hoover had refused to acknowledge the existence of countrywide organised crime in the United States, only to be proved wrong by New York State police troopers, who awaited as the Mob leaders emerged from a meeting/gathering place, in the late 1950s, and arrested them. Such incidents had implications, why would J Edgar Hoover want to be proved wrong by New York State Police troopers?

If the likes of Mob leaders like Joseph Bonanno had alerted the US Govt about the real reasons, if the US Govt had alerted BT, he'd have to accept the rumours that he had remarried, no matter how severe the insult. 

That's all that BT had meant when he spoke to Close Female Relative in the final days of his life, "Tor bon ke noye ashbi Durga Pujor shomoy/Bring your sister for Durga Puja."

'Bon ano'. Bring your sister. Joseph Bonanno. Some 1957 lease it would be, given what Bonanno and the US Govt would know about Kolkata.

iii. Once BT's remarriage was solved, Antara would have to consider that if Boromashi solved Kim Philby, why was she not celebrated for the same? Who was Stieg Larsson? You might be ignored for your achievements, how could it lead to an entire literary genre called the 'Nordic Noir'?

What was the 'Nordic Noir' about, was it telling us what NS Road planned to do to the Treasury?

August 26, 2025.