1987 and thereafter

 

i. It was not easy after the lease was lost to Japan in 1987. One had to adore other family members, keep them in good humour, collect amusing anecdotes (often manufactured, to make them laugh) and interesting factoids to earn one's meal. 

"You were lucky, in American households, they threw teenage boys and girls out of the household in stormy evenings," Anjali would say. 

At ACJ in 2005, Antara ran searches on the Web, "American teenagers+thrown out of home" but there were no incidents that matched what Anjali had said 1987 onward.

(Above photo was from 1989, Antara as a student of Class 5)

ii. Till news spread around 1996 that those that worshipped Hitler intelligence would not be able to use it anymore, some rival to Hitler had emerged out of Wall Street's early 20th century history. 

Antara's uncle and cousin came rushing to Purulia from Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh. "Was it the Breakfast blackmail, the Romanian hostel?" 

Anjali was furious, "Was I a meal supplier, that they were huddling with Purulia relatives and only eating with us?" till someone informed that after breakfast in Anjali's household, the Gorakhpur relatives ate kochuri-sabzi from roadside vendors as well. "Then why eat here, with us?" Anjali had asked.

(Above photo taken in 1996 during the Gorakhpur relatives' visit, Antara wearing Cousin Botuk's photochromatic glasses.)

iii. Deutch was not even a discussion proper. How Antara survived since 1996 was the investigation of the Wannsee Conference.

(Above photo, later in 1996.)

October 27, 2025.