Let's assume that Antara's parents used regular outfits. That even if they had niche arrangements for them, they were too well-behaved and modest to ever ask for things that might set them apart from the Purulia relatives or the NS Road ones.
They were good-looking and sophisticated, why make it worse for other Bengalis by adopting a superior lifestyle, back when India was going through its socialist heyday, caught in the so-called 'Hindu rate of growth"?
The same thought process seemed to dominate their choice of political affiliation, the CPI as the origin of the Communist movement in India, with incredible intelligence both on Adolf Hitler's rise and the Soviet Union's worldwide imperial ambitions. Yet the CPI was unassuming, never bargaining for a Union Cabinet post or a Committee position, just well-informed lectures at the Indian Parliament, with the one exception called IK Gujral, formerly of the CPI, Prime Minister of India in 1997-98.
In an unconnected incident, the Hunger Strike at Brabourne Hostel, apparently planned by John Walker Lindh, also took place in 1998. Increasingly, it was beginning to seem that the Hunger Strike at Brabourne Hostel had the backing of influential Pentagon honchos, it was supposed to weaken Antara, she would be like Winning Prasad, solving allusions that no one would touch, the allusions would be her personal sport.
Thus, the attack on western intelligence, weakening it in favour of the Global South, was coming from within the Pentagon.
How could one Hunger Strike at a Kolkata hostel have such far-reaching impact, disastrous for most countries, useful only to a few interest groups for the purpose of a CPI predominance across the world?
ii. One possibility was Hong Kong. An almost free port trade zone, with a highly developed free market and low taxation.
Sounded familiar, the direction where the Trumps wanted to take the United States, a free port with wide, extensive coastal stretches, while others ensured that Nasser's aspiration to make Washington DC a gathering place of the Global South was realised?
Why wouldn't Europe get kicked in its face when it came to the US-EU Free Trade Deal? Europe had taken migrants but not conceded to Nasser, which meant Antara's parents remained displeased with Europe.
"It was likely that Washington DC was supposed to take an interest in Antara's life (if it wanted to) from 1982 to 1997, as long as it took for the erstwhile Cunard shipping line to set up base in Hong Kong, till the United Kingdom ceded control in 1997. After 1997, if any US official took any interest in Antara's life or even tried to protect the US currency (dollar), it would bring forth retribution, like the 9/11 attacks."
(The Cunard Line's India branch was managed out of Chittaranjan, a locomotive town in Asansol's suburbs. One of the NS Road wives was from Chittaranjan.
If Ajit supported Cunard's growing prowess out of Hong Kong, how was it possible that he was connected to Austria, or the White Star Line or even the RMS Titanic narrative? Wouldn't it imply that Ajit was against Austria, except the Austrian Communist Party?)
August 3, 2025.
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