Ajit had a strange way of bringing up a close relation's name whenever someone was visiting the Ajit-Anjali household.
"I have an uncle, he lived in Canada," he'd say, with great enthusiasm. It was the 1980s and 90s, not many Indians had relatives abroad or even knew which countries were immigrant-friendly, as North America supposedly was.
The above conversation took place in Bengali, this was what it sounded like, "Amar kaka achhe, Canada-te thake."
(As it happened, Ajit had always referred to BT as 'kaka', never 'Baba', which was the Bengali version of Dad/father. "So many cousins (AT's sons) calling him 'kaka', it was a joint family, it was easier to call him 'kaka'.")
Once the visitor had departed, Anjali would reprimand him, "Why do you bring up your relative living in Canada every time someone visited? He didn't care for you, he could have taken you there."
(The relative was highly educated, an academic, the dean of engineering in one of the Canadian universities.)
"Oh, he was an envious one, I bring up his name just for fun, where's the problem?" Ajit would reply, indicating that the RMS Titanic-based politics guided the Canada-based relative's life, he wouldn't have helped Ajit anyway.
ii. It was strange that 2006 onwards, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs chose the spouse as the person to collaborate with when it came to the RMS Titanic. For that was all there was to it, gathering support for Israel's RMS Titanic stance, and possibly gathering information.
The North Korean nuclear programme had been up and running since 2006, it was hindering Antara's rise through the ranks of journalism but should it have come in the way of the fact Antara was a great source of RMS Titanic info, though she had no known connection to the RMS Titanic (as certified by the Reagan administration?) Why was Antara something to be avoided by the Israelis?
Apparently, others were following how it went, before the Israelis were accused of systemic anti-Semitism, including against the Palestinians, the latter faced the fury because they didn't want to forget the Nazi Holocaust. The NRIs would have to keep it in mind, how future meetings between the Israelis and the spouse would be adjudged, what discussions it would set off across the world.
iii. The NRIs had thought that Global Communists had an upper-hand because of the Jan 6 2021 US Capitol rioting, there were questions about the identity of Antara's parents.
There was nothing much to it, Antara's parents ought to have been taken to Ukraine at some point in their lives, where they'd have met representatives of the United States Govt, who would have flown down to Ukraine. The US Congress had the best intelligence on what happened in the decades leading up to WWII, what dangers the European Jewry were facing, it would also cover information collected from Dothan, Alabama.
Such a meeting between Antara's parents and the US Govt could not take place in Ukraine, hence crucial intelligence was missing from Ajit-Anjali's household, what was not even known to the US military. It was not Supriya Paul's fault either, she had considered herself "ineligible" for that intelligence.
However, the Kolkata media groups started using the spouse, setting him in wrong directions, turning him into a rival to the US Congress. If the US Congress lost the battle, the spouse would have to find a replacement for it.
iv. Thus, we had two groups that were working with each other, Kolkata-based media companies and the Israelis, while the Americans remained apathetic.
US officials ought to have established a 'zone of trust', providing their names and phone numbers to Antara, if they had been able to ascertain how senior Antara's work had become, who she was working with for the 'allusions'. But every US official looked at Antara as an 'aspirational immigrant', they were constantly conspiring to harm the US military, if it could somehow help in shutting down her blogs, thereby assuring Nagpur.
It was now official that US Govt employees worked for Nagpur's agenda, not for the United States.
Certain individuals were suggesting that because Antara had been introduced to weaponry studies, it was causing disrespect among US officials, even Antara considered weaponry studies as "quite easy". There were other cutting-edge mathematical and scientific specialisations, those were not discussed or available to be pursued by lay persons. If the Aadhaar situation didn't improve, those topics could be introduced to Antara.
v. It was obvious that the problem around Antara's employment was about a workplace, the allusions and blogs were not being dignified because of Israeli resistance. Her payment/salary problems were secondary, either she'd never be paid or at some point they'd relent, the way they allowed her a few visits to Kolkata.
If the Israelis had a differing version of WWII and the Nazi Holocaust, they were not willing to divulge it. They were not even curious about what Antara might have to say. One could blame Chetla, but someone was taking away the global population's right to make informed choices, and the Israelis and Chetla were part of that side.
November 26, 2025.
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