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It was not any shared strategic interest with respect to Moscow that made the lease family tolerate the Batanagar lot.

Or Allahabad was it, back in the day?

You understand how difficult it would be, how would you verify it was Allahabad, not Lucknow or Kanpur? Had they shown any proof of where they had been, which Indian cities they had resided in before moving to Batanagar?

All that Antara had ever seen was a visiting card of the paternal grandfather, saying he worked for Meghdoot Television, the last of the 17 jobs he apparently held in his life. 

All Antara could make of it was, "The paternal grandfather would have serious contacts within Silicon Valley, those that could ruin Ukraine. However, the paternal grandfather's closeness with Deutch of Agency was not understood."

That meant much before President Ronald Reagan chose his favourites to destroy the legit lease, in the early 1980s, there had been other kinds of arrangements to perplex US Govts of later decades, so that they were unable to understand the source of Chetla's clout or of those assisting her.

Batanagar was apparently troubled by the repeated Partitions of Poland in the 18th century, and that implied it was a Poland-based interest group, in which case, why was it not a proper conflict, why did Antara not get support from those opposed to the Batanagar and Chetla agenda?

And if Batanagar had a problem with what the Austrians, Prussians and Russians did to Poland, why did Antara's relatives, including NS Road, decide to ally with Batanagar?

The historical problem dated from the 18th century, the 'alliances of convenience' were from the 1980s?

Batanagar would allege that the European powers had falsified the reasons for the Partition of Poland (1770s to 1790s). Batanagar was certain that it was only for the exclusion of the Tagores from the 1790 lease, such that Barack Obama onwards, the United States Govt would be caught in its own duplicity, thereby empowering the legit lease. 

(Why didn't you choose another political family from southern US for the purpose, instead of the Obamas? No one could say Antara benefitted from the US Govt's discomfiture.)

ii. Austria, on its part, would say, 

"It was a tough decision to repeatedly partition Poland, the reasons were not important but that Batanagar's glorious ancestors seemed so comfortable with monarchical powers, it seemed they were the real monarchs. It was an emergency situation, where the ruling power had been challenged by the expertise of non-rulers, which led to the Partition of Poland, from the 1770s to 1790s.

The Tagores might have taught them but how did the Tagores learn such things?

The problem got worse. If the Allahabad version of what Japan was, what it wanted, was not accepted, the Tagores would take Antara hostage and force Wall Street firms to buy Indian intelligence.  

If everyone started leading their lives as per Allahabad-Batanagar, how would Antara's hostage situation resolve?

We could have asked the CPUSA, either decide in favour of redefining Nazi German hierarchy, propping up the Nazi gauleiters as the real leaders, or redefine Japan as per your needs. But it seemed that the Tagores were planning some new theatricality around Japan, hence they needed to hold the status-quo."

Antara being force-fed Oriental noodles. Junior College Brabourne Hostel. 1996. 

October 10, 2025.