How to differ

This was a 'requested' blogpost.

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"Your mistake was the failure to realise we didn't live in the 1950s and 60s. The future of the conservatives in the US meant nothing to anyone.

It was not Antara's fault that deals arranged in the initial decades after WWII ended up looking somewhat bizarre.

The Agency had the same problem, its favourites were mentored as per the 1950s-60s. Antara never had that leisure, she had no guidance and had to grapple with reality, she emerged tough and pragmatic.

In situations such as these, where a country like the United States had assumed that BT's upper-hand was lost and it was advantage to the Tagores and Tagore-loyalist Americans, only one kind of research and allusions work would have worked, one that investigated above the level of the German Empire. 

Antara was thankful that she got the support when it was needed and that it would continue."

Puri, Orissa, 1990.

October 5, 2025.