British intelligence had concluded that when it came to asking for assistance for any excess committed against her, Antara would approach Italy, Romania, Poland and Czech Republic, in that order.
Antara didn't trust anyone who put such excess tomatoes in their cuisine, didn't the Italians know when to stop? She'd even go without tomatoes through much of the year, as Anjali often did, so those that thought Antara would approach Italy knew nothing of her.
Romania was out of the question, given what Kolkata did to that country in the 1940s, based on the blackmail around the rebellion of sailors and civilians, at the Kronstadt naval base in 1921, what had scared Lenin and Trotsky.
If the British had seriously wanted Antara to approach Poland, why did they go to such extremes with Batanagar and the Partition of Poland blackmail? People go to movies or have a meal together, Antara spent a considerable part of her youth listening to "there used to be a country called Prussia" (for Konigsberg purposes) and "what Poland underwent through those repeated Partitions".
Batanagar discussed those things only if they were cleared by the honchos, why would Antara want to approach Poland, so traumatised from the 1770s onward? It was not that we were 'allowed' to research any other traumatic episode from 20th century history.
That left the Czech Republic and that was like Ireland, "getting English Honours-ed again". You'd admire Czech writers only to find out that they had a grip on financiers and escaped to Paris while their country slid to authoritarian rule. As discussed before, Antara couldn't accept financiers without checking who they were or what they'd done in the past. The Long Telegram needed extensive discussions but not the backgrounds of global tycoons?
Indians had maintained through Antara's childhood and youth that she was being 'baited' for the RMS Titanic. Yet in 2025, the kind of harassment she was being subjected to, nasty and vitriolic abuse, reminders of South African Communists making steady progress against the legit lease, how much of it was any longer about the RMS Titanic?
It seemed a certain expertise had emerged about how to handle a group of Germans and DC officials against Antara, they allowed every insult and humiliation, sending their agents to show support for Antara's adversaries and explicitly deny it to Antara. Did these agents support Antara's torture all through or was it a recent stance?
ii. The Lightoller blackmail had been solved earlier in 2025, it was decided to hold it back so that the legal cases against the Trumps didn't pick up again. The following was from Antara's earlier work:
"With a day job as an engineer while pursuing further engineering studies at Jadavpur University, Ajit was completely under the thrall of his university professors, many of whom pursued blackmails against the American railroad tycoons. It led to severe damage of the RMS Titanic narrative in the 1960s, those in NECTA (New England City and Town Area) were asked to forget the British misbehaviour towards the Americans on board the RMS Titanic, what the Trumps apparently called the Lightoller blackmail."
There, even the Lightoller blackmail was solved, did anyone think it would change the way Antara was attacked, the way her existence was being challenged?
Antara was unwell in 2014, around three months of ceaseless fever, from July to September. After recovery, when she had gained sufficient strength to go out again, she was told "Don't let your problems become your identity" (it was inscribed on the coffee mug in the above photo). Antara did as told, worked at an online journalism start-up till 2016, wrote a collection of short stories, read up on global shipping and energy innovations, her problems didn't define her.
A Delhi restaurant, October 2014.
As precaution, the physician had advised Antara to avoid air-conditioning as much as possible. In the above restaurant, Antara and the spouse were seated at an alcove under construction (photo above), where AC machines had not yet started working.
Through all the challenges she faced since 2014, Antara got no support from elsewhere.
Then why didn't she have an Aadhaar, if she had always done as instructed?
October 15, 2025.
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