Festive cheers!

It was a difficult moment, how would Antara prefer to be humiliated, by Jamshedpur or north Kolkata? 

Or both?

No, don't bring up the torture-surveillance, Antara's right hand was severely injured for more than a month now, a nasty sprain that wouldn't cure. That was a reminder that the authorities had an 'upper-hand' from the Jan 6, 2021 US Capitol rioting, Antara was theirs to humiliate. 

It was the right hand, and the ruling dispensation in the United States was Republican, who knew what it implied, even after the free trade deal?

So humiliating Antara would continue, that and better collaboration with the British via the Nordic countries.

ii. By the way, quite a bit of progress on the Jan 6, 2021 research. Suffice to say that if Antara didn't stay extremely alert on her blog, then the Wales-based NRI families that 'outed' an American NSA in 2017 would use the global news agencies to contact-corroborate Antara, organisations like Reuters or Agence France-Presse/AFP. 

That was the ultimate Mallick revenge for running a blog (with photographs) without any Hitler intelligence. You'd have to make sure that Cooper blocking the email id meant global news media should avoid Antara, not tell her "You were anything but Jewish", as the Mallicks wanted.

iii. To come back to whether Antara wanted to be humiliated by Jamshedpur or north Kolkata or both, on a day when Indian women celebrated the 'brother'.

The correct response was to define a 'brother'. Who was a 'brother'?

The Alamo Girl would say that a brother was "14 years older", so one who was British intelligence but knew his Austria.

Prominent Personality would say that a brother was one "who hit so hard, it left the imprint of five fingers on your face". Neither Ursula nor Josep Borrell ticked those boxes, they merely tried to outlast the Clintons, so it would have to be a German Nazi and closer home, not exactly a 'brother'?

Sudhaji's friend in Bengaluru might say that a brother was one about whom "you could say anything, as long as it didn't hint at Assad Kotaite and ICAO/Lebanon", yes, just keep repeating the Axel Wenner Gren and Messerschmitt anecdotes to preserve the status quo against Antara.

Antara didn't have the courage to discuss the rest of her volatile former batchmates, with brothers, their names were not to be discussed in vain. 

iv. Why would one culture's value-system (worshipping men) imply a humiliation of those that didn't believe in it?

Did Austrians consider STAVKA as brothers?

Did 19th century Americans consider STAVKA as if they were part of the family or was it more like a 'strategic partnership'?

Did the Alamo Girl consider STAVKA altogether defeated?

Most westerners felt that Antara's generation measured time in "school years". The moment high school was over, they started fretting that better possibilities hadn't worked out. It was correct, Antara didn't see her parents fret when she finished high school. 

"Never thought we'd come this far, we were quite sure there'd be some crisis that would force both of you to drop out of school, write your Class 10 Board exams as private students. What a relief, attended school all through, now I was done, no more getting up early in the morning, no breakfast, no lunch boxes. I've told your father, I'd sleep late, don't bother me, we could take things easy and slow."

That was Anjali.

Instead of trying to humiliate Antara at every turn, why not stop measuring your life in "school years"?

October 23, 2025.