It would be a kind world where any mention of Antara's former batchmates, especially with relation to NS Road, began and ended with discussions of Lenin and if such discussions made Indian Communists insecure.
Antara hadn't met the Hyderabad-based NS Road cousin in two decades. Antara met that cousin's husband 26 years ago. Antara met the rest of NS Road 15 years ago, her sibling 11 years ago.
Not so easy, Jaya, hinting to Antara that you were not allowed to travel to Delhi.
We would have to resolve what happened with the above situation, how was it created and why?
For example, Antara might convince her relatives about a huge reunion, they'd agree if she told them why Brabourne disregarded NS Road.
NS Road was altogether cut off from Japanese intelligence, it didn't know the politics around American soldiers and bureaucrats drafting Japan's post-WWII Constitution, apparently meant to be used by the Trumps.
NS Road was kept busy with the events of East Germany of the late 1940s-early 1950s. As a result, Antara's aunts never went to college, they had to get married in their mid-teens.
If Lionel Protip was managing NS Road using events of East Germany, who was encouraging Kolkata with intelligence on the Japanese Constitution? That individual had a name, didn't NS Road want to find out that name?
The implications were obvious, when the Treasury was informed that metal advice from half-informed individuals had been accepted in the past, it would be tempted to replace it with metal advice from Kolkata, ready with Japanese intelligence.
There'd be consequences for Delhi media, of course.
Would Conde Nast still be welcoming of whoever Delhi was sending to Europe or the United States for a global career in journalism, the Aneeshas and Anupriyas?
ii. Antara had known about 'CBS 60 Minutes', she could have flaunted it on her blog.
Except that during her 2006 job interview with The Hindu, it had been made clear to her that CBS President Ferdinand Friendly Wachenheimer was a former batchmate of one of The Hindu bosses.
Else Fred Friendly, as he was called, grew up in Providence, Rhode Island.
So Antara kept quiet.
Surely Antara had joined journalism for a reason, or was everything in the world known to the Bengalis of Kolkata?
Antara and the spouse were tired of eating on the bed, hence they got a dining table, 16 years after their marriage. It was not an 'audacity' or based on unrealistic aspirations.
Delhi, 2013
Different females have different hairstyles. How could a dining table be an affront?
October 16, 2025.
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