This was a 'requested' blogpost.
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Now that Antara has escaped direct intimidation by the Russians, it was time for Kim Philby to be declared as the winner in all the categories, the ones being fought over and the ones yet to be invented.
Antara had been warned by the Birlas at HT, back in 2011, when her unsigned lead/edit had to be withdrawn because it had criticised the Union Minister who was trying to clamp down on internet freedom and free speech.
Antara should have understood that feudal sentiments and financial status were the determinants of free speech, that Indian Constitutional guarantees could easily be subverted if you knew the right people in Washington DC.
It would lead to the rise of Chetla.
Antara thought little of material comfort and immigration and was willing to take every possible risk to save individuals and societies from the Trumps and Putins. In Kim Philby, she had seen nothing but a ridiculous upstart, his face contorted with greed and material aspirations, how much of his intuition was actually Mount Lebanon?
However, the stunts that Philby pulled off were considerable. We were not naming or accusing individuals, but Philby loyalists had managed
--to keep Antara uninformed of the circumstances of her paternal grandmother's death, thereby making sure she was not able to challenge the US or British military about what happened when allusions work was ignored, that 'fake upper-strata of the US Navy's Mykolaiv House' couldn't readjust the global economy because everyone would stay away,
--that between Alamo Girl and Antara, Alamo Girl's identity was found to be more useful and crucial for Israel, hence what a two-State solution in 2025, the other State having ceased to exist,
--to make sure that activities of individuals like Snowden, 2013 onwards, meant no US official would ever contact Antara in this life or pay her a salary for her work,
--then using several individuals from St Xavier's Kolkata to plan a Russian visit to Antara, those that would warn her about her blog, who'd use their mobile phones and connect to Russia-loyal individuals in DC and confirm they'd never read her emails, there's so much spam coming into the inbox anyway, and thereby cause the biggest attack on her marriage, when all previous compatibility would be forgotten simply because a Russian had insulted Antara,
--then using the photographs taken by the Alamo Girl almost three decades back to stave off such a Russian visit such that Alamo Girl and Neeta Ma'am came out looking heroic and with pious intent,
--then to use an individual in New Delhi to connect to those that dealt with Field Marshal Alan Francis Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff/CIGS (these CIGS people often visited New Delhi, including being at Khan Market) telling them versions of WWII events they didn't know, how the Mahalanobis family was never interested in Austria, only in railroads, such that Chetla could invade Vienna as a 'disinterested individual', the perfect cover.
If it was a such an insignificant Treasury, all outmoded and transacting small volumes, bent under the pressure of the Nazi Holocaust and Hitler blackmails, only an institution to glorify Ukraine, nothing compared to the splendour of the Global South, why, Kim Philby, did you take such extreme measures as the above to push Chetla into Vienna?
You were winning all right but wherefore?
Antara and their pet dog, precariously balanced on a metal desk on their rooftop terrace, their house was still under construction. Purulia, 1998.
September 25, 2025.
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