Did you have disreputable relatives?
Rather, did you have disreputable, distant relatives?
Anyone would shun such contacts, if these people led unsavoury lives, were not close relations either, where was the point in knowing them?
Around 2021, British politics and its cast of varied politicians had brought some of these characters to the fore.
No cause for excess anxiety in Mumbai-Pune, only their names had come up, nothing else.
Their names were Khoka (small boy), Khonra (injured leg), Madan. They were brothers and had lived at Rashmela, Purulia, Antara had earlier written about it ('Spice Wars from Rashmela, Purulia', Sept 2, 2025).
Khoka, Khonra, Madan, were Ajit's uncles.
As per Antara's close relations, the above-named led unsavoury lives because they were connected to dacoits.
As per the 'minders', they were boatmen, probably descended from those that sailed Dwarkanath's ships.
As per Antara's allusions, they were agents of British officers who managed the coastal batteries and defence of Singapore during WWII.
When Singapore fell in 1942, they passed to Axis forces and became unsavoury.
Through the 1980s, they tried to indicate that the legit lease family needed Caucasian support, that Washington DC had a tough exterior because within DC, a wealthy casino-owning guy had nothing on his mind but Ukraine.
Why was their information not considered seriously? They were Axis agents and hence powerful against the West, what did Linlithgow-Moynihan imply if it didn't trust the Axis either?
Only the well-being of the boys and girls of Kolkata, that was the definition of Linlithgow-Moynihan?
Khoka, Khonra, Madan fell once more when Hong Kong passed from the British to China in 1997. ('Why Europe got kicked in Free Trade: Cunard and Hong Kong', August 3, 2025).
Now think carefully, when Delhi media wanted Antara to connect to her Purulia relatives for some "serious fun", did they want her to connect to those that had witnessed both the 1942 Fall of Singapore and the 1997 Handover of Hong Kong?
Denmark, under pressure, yielded all kinds of information. 'Two-beers' had been a brewery in Copenhagen since 2010, so JLF and Changi Naval Base were not the surprise but if Copenhagen received inputs about the tortures against Antara.
October 25, 2025.
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