To begin with, there were certain clarifications:
i. There were remnants of the lease family in Ukraine but they had a low esteem for Antara. Why that was so would be discussed for a while.
ii. Both Washington DC and Moscow wanted to share the blame for the incorrect and dangerous medication given to Antara by the physician. "You could consider us as sellouts, those who made compromises with the Clinton administration only to hurt you. We were faking a reversal using Donald Trump and the world would return to peace and prosperity, with economic growth and welfare measures, once your possibility of recovery and employment was over."
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Delhi people were not fond of reading books. It was discussed by everyone, almost everywhere.
"All the publishing firms and their headquarters were located in a city where no one ever read a book," journalists would tell each other.
"If you wanted to remain a within a book-friendly culture and environment, why did you shift to Delhi?" Antara and her spouse would be told from Kolkata, when they shared the anecdote that commuters stared if they saw someone reading a book.
If there was a newsroom colleague who had never heard of Dostoevsky, others would jump to her defence. "So what, it was not essential to know every author's name or book title to be a journalist".
Since it was the guiding philosophy both at ACJ and at the Kolkata office, it was not important what you knew but who you knew, what was also called 'access journalism', Antara always fell quiet when thus attacked. In choosing journalism, she was in the wrong profession, there was no point arguing about it or creating a controversy. She respected the ideals of journalism, she needed a way out of the newsrooms. Ideals made humans, lack of ideals something else.
However, not once had it occurred to Antara that 'access' or 'who you knew' referred to a prominent freedom fighter from Bengal/Kolkata, that there was an undeclared national competition going on about who could collect maximum gossip on that individual, the fate of Paramount-Skydance merger and its way forward would be decided accordingly.
If Antara was unable to understand that those around her were competing with each other over freedom fighter gossip, Paramount would start gobbling up one American corporation after another.
ii. Antara was obviously debarred from the above competition. It had started around 2017, she was unemployed but her husband went to work. It was still possible for her to move around Delhi and whenever she approached a bookshop, on her own, they'd
--either quickly shut shop, "yes, we were closing at 6 pm instead of our usual 9.30 pm, there was a cricket match on and we wanted to watch it from home",
--or the security guard wouldn't let her enter, "you have to deposit your handbag and then go upstairs to the bookstore" to which Antara would reply, "but there were valuables inside my handbag including other books" but the guard wouldn't budge on the 'rules',
--or worse, the bookstore would hire six or seven members of the AAP cadre who'd stand next to each other and cover the bookshelves, standing at the same spot and unmoving so that Antara would have to peer over them to see the books,
--and the worst of all, those bookstores which didn't get time to hire members of the AAP cadre would bring out lengths of fabric, ladders, from the storeroom and block the shelves, so that Antara couldn't check the books on display.
Thus, if Delhi didn't read, it implied it didn't need financiers, that the Musk-Bezos economy was merely for show, Antara couldn't visit the US because of AAP else she would have got a better look at the desperate, shambolic state of the US economy after decades of misrule, and in case she somehow managed to reach, Moyne's agents and Anjali's Freemasons would create diversions so that Antara didn't understand what happened in the US from President Ronald Reagan onwards.
iii. The Taiwanese were, therefore, not mentioned by chance. There was a gossip-based competition about a Bengali freedom fighter, the fate of American media hung in the balance. JP Morgan was chatting with the inhabitants of Formosa Place.
Why shy away from the fact that it was the Taiwanese who had informed the world in 1997 that while losing BT's House to the Parsis, the lease family had also lost its right to receiving financing? It was Ajit-Anjali's arrangement with Close Female Relative, they'd take a beating to let Close Female Relative get ahead.
(Ajit had retired in 1997, his pension started 18 months later. Through those 18 months, it was Close Female Relative who put food on the table, as if Antara could believe anything about Ajit-Anjali's household.)
The Taiwanese, warming up to the show of the century, had joked, "Wait till the legit lease heir found out her narrative, tried to buy allegiance and services from the US intelligence community. What would she buy it with? Even her bowel movements would have been stopped by then, that was the NRI plan for the great US dollar."
A few individuals in Purulia (West Bengal) had warned Antara. "These Taiwanese had huge Bengali backers, mostly based in Silicon Valley, the generation that immigrated in the 1980s. They worked with the Bidens, using Hradec Kralove to prevent a discussion of Biden's Bengali friends during WWII. That was Batanagar's intention, to use Biden's extremely lengthy political career to finish you off."
iv. Batanagar (the town) wouldn't have had the audacity to expose its sympathy for Nazi Holocaust perps without German BND backing.
"Unless some of our work against the Treasury was made available to the British, the fear of an Anglo-American alliance against Kolkata would never recede." (It was what Oleg Gordievsky did, supposedly acting at the behest of BND, providing information against Treasury officials.)
It was strange to find out how the BND had planned it and how it turned out for Antara in the 21st century: "Less stress on future Holocausts, Antara must do extensive Nazi Holocaust research within Robert H Jackson's format. When she pointed at the real culprits, Kolkata and Dhaka, when she realised that no one was interested in nabbing/arresting them, she'd understand she'd been duped, that would be the end of the legit lease".
Instead, Antara got a decade-long torture surveillance when bookstores closed on seeing her approach, when no one would request her to write for a local media/publication, when she was not allowed to read at home (not even in 2025, except for allusions work), which allowed her to realise she'd been duped by her parents and there was no place for her in the world.
Since the BND plan had failed and was over, why couldn't Antara start the Nazi Holocaust research?
September 10, 2025.
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