Bengalis had made their aspirations known about clinging to the Tagores. They did try to keep relics after Rabindranath's demise, granting Rabindranath a religiosity that was otherwise absent in Bengal.
Bengalis were often atheists, frequently secular but what had been done to BT in the 1920s by the US-based Consolidated Steel Corporation had made Rabindranath (including Tripura) a larger-than-life figure. Rabindranath's birth anniversary was an annual festival in Bengal, with far more citizen involvement than the annual Durga Pujo.
After all Durga Pujo was only for the Hindus, not other Bengalis. Educational institutions celebrated Tagore's birth anniversary, they kept their institutions closed during Durga Pujo, to avoid the religiosity. Not that anyone was complaining or criticising or offending fragile Bengali sentiments. But any approach to Kolkata or Bengal on the lease needed a discussion of the people and their belief-system, else one would make mistakes.
ii. It was no one's contention that John R Steelman was the only American who might have ever spied on the US military, if he did so. But that blogpost created resentment among Bengalis, Antara was severely humiliated within her neighbourhood.
If Antara now clarified that Steelman might have been among the thousands of agents the Tagores ran in the US to report against the legit lease to the US military, would that set things right for Antara? Who would tell her neighbours that Bengalis tend to be hasty when it comes to insulting educated women?
Thus, the US military had to constantly receive reports against the legit lease all through World War II, it was a Tagore and Bengali frenzy against BT, the information against BT was usually gathered at Camp Cooke, near Santa Barbara in California.
To add to it, certain mighty financiers from southern India had entrusted their funds in Camp Cooke. BT, who stayed in India, could neither match that funding nor would he have wanted to do such a thing. A lavish military camp for going to a World War could be thought up in southern India, which had a peaceful environment. Central and eastern Europeans knew the savagery of war, financial investments in military camps wouldn't even occur to them, as a way of ensuring future immigration to the US or getting US Congress to agree to the H1B visa programme.
iii. It brought us to NS Road. Of course, Ajit would be criticised as well but one would have to wait for it, Antara was allowed only a blogpost or so per day. The US Govt had apparently created paperwork that described the sibling as a 'distant relative of Antara', to protect the legit lease from Indian wives, including in the construction sector.
Antara disagreed, she didn't want to sever ties with her sibling despite the Bengaluru aspect, even if they could talk every few years, as they tended to do.
Antara kept referring to her. Given the level of duping that went on among global militaries, the hundreds of disinformation campaigns, the chances of Close Female Relative getting anything in life didn't exist, no 'minder' believed she was taken seriously and it thereby became Antara's responsibility to keep her informed and protected.
Thus, Ajit's assignment through his life was to keep discussing Medina/Lackland Air Force Base, as if Antara's troubles were coming from there. Ajit was thus deceiving Antara, he never mentioned Camp Cooke near Santa Barbara, where Tagore agents reported against BT and the legit lease, where south Indian financiers attacked BT in terrifying ways.
When Anjali said, "Your father never stepped into the kitchen, not even to make a cup of tea", it implied Ajit would never discuss Camp Cooke, not even to save the British. Not a good guy, was he, our Ajit? So who else would need to be humiliated so that Antara could lead her life in India?
Not Thales Group/CSF, hopefully, the French multinational that apparently came to India in 1953 to assist Dumka and NS Road against BT, to provide necessary intelligence on the Katyn Massacre?
Did Bimal mention that to BT when he went with a matrimonial proposal to Rashmela, Purulia, in 1968, "we have a French multinational group assisting us for the last 15 years on the Katyn Massacre, as well as on Stalin's Note, your two-bit Joseph Bonanno insurance wouldn't help your descendants given Stalin might have found out about it, now why didn't Ajit marry Anjali and create the perfect global crisis impossible for anyone to solve?
September 1, 2025.
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