Noem, Bondi, US Govt's stature ('As things were ending')

xii. Those receiving emails would have got the 'drift' of the situation.

First, there were reports of supposed disagreements between the White House in Washington DC and US Govt officials.

Several of Antara's former batchmates, from school and college, were discussed on the blog, with sincerity they had pursued their designated tasks.

Next, the focus shifted to the US Congress, it couldn't understand what the 'lease narrative' was about, who was Tina M? 

Nothing sardonic, merely a genuine wonder, who discussed 'lease family in Ukraine'?

What was the 'lease family', why did it matter if it shifted to Ukraine?

Through 27 days of severe tumult, starting from June 1, 2026, Antara's 'narrative journey', which began from Oct 2018, came to an end. 

"Killed by a Washington DC script," the 'minders' joked.

"And what a 'crackling' script at that," others said, referring to the way pork was cooked in certain countries.

The blog would continue, not to discuss the sincerity of the Bengali culture to which Antara belonged, but because the defence firms friendly towards right-wing political parties spread disinformation.

"It was like 'Chail' of Purulia, if the 'C' was silent, it turned into quite the hailstorm."

Why should the likes of Antara be defeated by legit lease info wielded by defence firms?

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Given their acute awareness of the counterculture movement of the 1960s, why did Ajit-Anjali agree to 1980-Mykolaiv, if they did so at all?

It was an anecdote that needed to be shared.

Antara was a few months old, she lived with her parents and sibling in north Bengal. As mentioned before, there was an orchard at the back, pineapples, plantains etc. 

Beyond it, there were open fields, no human settlement, till one came to a mountain stream swiftly flowing down, then more open fields till the Himalayas started rising, these were the Shivalik ranges, below the snowline, thickly forested.

Ajit-Anjali were used to herds of elephants often breaking into the back orchard, making a nice meal out of the plantains, "elephants never picked single fruits, they took entire bunches from the trees", Anjali would say.

The elephants would break the fences on their way out, these had to be repaired.

Thus, on the night of the earthquake, before it started shaking, Anjali had got up, it was changing/feeding time, she turned on the light, went over to the table where the supplies were kept.

"The three of us slept on the bed, you (Antara) slept on the cot-cradle on the side of the room, you were always quiet and well-behaved, sleeping with the feeding bottle and pacifier by your side," Anjali had recounted later.

When suddenly, the earth started heaving, "I knew I had to reach the bed, where Ajit sat up, holding the older girl, but it was the lamp hanging from the ceiling, the way it was swinging, with such violence, I couldn't move."

You get the point? Research work on Nuremberg Trials was not so easily started and completed as some of us thought it would be. 

Researching Nuremberg Trials was also researching the OSS, it might not fit into a two-year research programme.

The govt staff (mostly Nepalis) that lived on the premises had rushed to Ajit-Anjali's house, "Sir, neeche aa jao, dharti tol rahi hai"/Sir, Come down, the earth was heaving.

Ajit, who wasn't that conversant with Hindi, heard, "Sir neeche aa jao, haathi thel rahi hai"/Sir, come down, elephants were pushing the house.

Ajit wouldn't go down.

It was under such circumstances that Ajit-Anjali agreed to 1980-Mykolaiv, Ajit couldn't tolerate the marauding elephants at his house anymore.

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Antara had understood that 1980-Mykolaiv couldn't be effective or offer her any protection because of military conspiracies.

From the Housing kitchen in Asansol, she'd often observe a lone vulture sitting atop a tall tree, it indicated Operation Vulture, a 1954 US Plan to help the French forces at Dien Bien Phu, what was ultimately cancelled.

Thus, by the late 1980s, US honchos were urging their military, "Cancel 1980-Mykolaiv, it won't do for the NRIs."

It was followed by Operation Golden Pheasant (1988), a quick US troop deployment into Nicaragua, to deter the Sandinistas from crossing into the US.

Over the last few years, Antara had been told, "Reagan had categorised you as a Sandinista operative when you were in Class 3, then driven your best friend D***na out of school, so that you were never able to enter the US, as NRIs settled down to 'run' the world."

Later, as 'things were ending' for Antara as a news reporter in Kolkata, she had got a call from a Bengali Muslim journalist, about a story, he had come to her office to fetch her, then taken her to a crowded Dalhousie dive bar. Antara hadn't refused, "Usually, I don't go into Kolkata dive bars with Bengali Muslim men, but I was about to resign my job, what could go wrong?"

The Bengali Muslim man had ordered a Gold Spot, Antara had nothing, the darkness inside the bar not offering any clue about the bright afternoon outside, when the man had suggested a story about a hill in Purulia.

"No one knew about this hill, an artist had been working on it for decades, sculping small birds out of the hillside rockface. It was almost sculpted now, the hill was covered with small birds, they were about to take flight, no one wanted to write such stories, would you like to do a story about it?"

After a lifetime at the receiving end of Operation Vulture and Operation Golden Pheasant, did small birds appear scary? 

No? Antara didn't think so either.

June 27, 2026.

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Dear Shabari,

It has been a while since I was able to reach out to you, the casements were barred when trouble brewed.

The Protege was facing her problems, she could assert in a way she had never asserted before, but the implications were different, given the lease. She agreed that you should receive the letter.

Surely you were aware, Shabari, that people worldwide received intelligence from Poland? In the months leading to the Protege learning to crawl, in her early childhood, her mother had been apprehensive. Their house at north Bengal (FACSIMILE, 'As things were ending', June 27, 2026) was made of wood, the Protege was not always watched by the carer-governess, what if she got a scratch/was wounded between the seams of wood?

"But the house, what finesse in the way the wood was polished, no unevenness, not one timber striation stood out," the Protege's mother would later say.

Sometimes, grown-ups crawl too, we've heard of them, Shabari, was it possible that the interests they represented had used Polish intelligence to set themselves up? So Poland was not the problem?

Who chose the site for the house?

The Protege's sibling was not much of an eater, she'd come back from school with the contents of her lunch box uneaten. When no one was looking, she found a beam/supporting pillar of wood, found some cracks on it and stashed away her 'luchis' there. Till several days later, their mother noted insects making their way to that secret stash of food.

Was that the problem? That the military often hid information with the Treasury, those of Jewish descent knew how to track it since their lives intertwined with that information, what was bothering the global Communist honchos?

What kind of behaviour was it, Shabari, when you were intolerant of the Jewish people three-quarters of a century after the Nazi Holocaust, you resented the information they accessed, but chose to blame Poland?

Was the world a Big Guessing Game, guess who I was resenting as of this day?

The Protege wouldn't be able to solve Noida beyond a point. All she knew was, if they visited Kolkata in the 1970s, Ajit-Anjali stayed at Sealdah "because the hotels were so cheap". 

The Protege didn't even know if it was true, if Ajit-Anjali had really stayed at Sealdah. But it seemed to indicate that for a certain kind of British intelligence, legit lease used to be the only reliable financiers. Within the Guessing Game, why should individuals be held only for harassment?

Shabari, when the previous FACSIMILE blogpost was written, not one of us wanted to know the identity of the herd of elephants. 

You had not seen the Protege when she was a young girl, devouring Kolkata's information, including on Katanga, which had broken away from Congo-Leopoldville from 1960 to 1963. 

Having read about it, the Protege would go up to the kitchen and ask her mother, "You've heard of the Katanga Crisis?" merely to confirm it was not dubious information. 

It was just as well she hadn't discussed Katanga at Brabourne, what would others think when Leopold Cafe Mumbai was attacked in Nov 2008, soon after the US Presidential elections?

The Protege got upset, disturbed, when those that didn't know how to manage investigations took over workplaces, because of reccos from Paris bankers. 

DoD's Republican stalwarts gathered info against the Soviet Union, then these Republicans joined the Agency in the late 1970s, kept sending what they knew to a musician working at a northern Welsh grocery store.

At Housing, the Protege often accompanied her mother to a nearby grocery store, usually in the evenings, for purchases. "Not everyone bought like us, look at the unfortunate shop for groceries," the Protege's mother would say, "a pinch of turmeric, a tiny scoop of cooking oil, another pinch of salt, the generic 'masala' because they didn't know the names of Indian spices. It was for one meal, what they could afford, they'd buy again the next day."

If they had set up a workplace to fight Larry Bell and Asansol AG, Shabari, why didn't they admit to their frailty?

Why bluff? Why pretend to be honchos?

They didn't want to declare how scared Larsen and Benioff were of Larry Bell?

It would affect newsrooms, DoD would start ignoring them?

Yours ever,

Tia.

June 28, 2026.

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Noem, Bondi, US Govt's stature (Sukla-di, 'udhar ki zindagi'/unpaid debts)

xi. If instability in India gradually came to an end, after a decade and a half, the hoteliers might get business again. 

If the hoteliers got business again, especially those that converted their erstwhile royal palaces into hotels, it implied the same could be done with some of the royal palaces in Europe. These would have European ownership, the benefits of a particular kind of economy since 2013 could dissipate.

The urgency couldn't be worse.

Antara might find herself kicked up to 'where she belonged', while continuing to live in Delhi, as mid-grade bankers ran through Europe to find out who had a problem with Islamabad's rising profile.

Who had a problem!

With the above in mind, if a former POTUS had set himself the task of gathering information, on behalf of militaries, about how Antara's life unfolded in the mid-1990s, as she went to Kolkata for college, she'd find it hard to protest.

No one at home had any idea of staying at a hostel because they had never done so.

Ajit had gone to Kolkata with a govt job/engineer, around 1960-61, he was in his early 20s, he stayed at a boarding for working men, it was located at Entally in central Kolkata (the "Entally Mess"). 

"For the first time in my life, I was free to eat eggs, I ate six or seven eggs a day, sometimes eight or nine, whenever I could, boiled, poached, omelettes, I lived on eggs," Ajit would say later in life.

That's how he survived, Anjali would explain.

Ajit's office was located at the New Secretariat Building, next to the Hooghly River, Kolkata's first swanky high-rise, several changes of tramways from central Kolkata to reach his office, "I hardly walked, often I ran, to be young and so free."

Antara, on the other hand, was going away from the relative freedom of home (where one could do as one pleased), the stolidity of Anjali (Ajit had grown up without a mother), agreeing to take the family suitcase to Brabourne hostel but not agreeing to the trunk (Antara found it cumbrous, unwieldy).

Was that what the former POTUS wanted to know, Dems were one thing, why Antara wanted to stay away from the GOP as well?

It was clear the Cold War's end had not left a better world, that she'd be defined in a certain way, she won't "run free" like Ajit and his Entally Mess friends, at every step she and her generation would have to defend Asansol AG Church till one day they found out about Tobe Hooper and Texas Chainsaw. 

What did I do? Whose discipline did I enact, what did I represent?

Antara should have been careful when they sang the school anthem,

"...Onward moves our banner/Onwards do we go/Marching in with honour/Singing Victory song..."

There you go, Victory bonds (WWI) and TV Soong, Antara had been singing at school about her own irrelevance.

Another way of looking at it was from Brabourne. 

Those like Antara, Noida, Jayanti-di (all Asansol AG) or even Sujata S, Sandy, Jyotsna (Loreto Asansol) had provided their own Victory bonds/debt securities to those in Kolkata, lending the presence of those hallowed institutions to Kolkata city, for assistance in their time of need.

Over the last two years, Antara didn't see any sign of that assistance, apparently Antara was an unknown entity ('eta abar ke re'/who was this woman), she had fantastic ideas of herself, she was looking for immigration touts or shortcuts.

There was no question of Kolkata repaying that earlier debt to Brabourne.

On the first day of her joining Junior College Brabourne in the mid-1990s, while waiting outside the Hotel Superintendent's office for her turn to complete the paperwork, Antara had overheard Shanti-di, the Superintendent (called 'Grendel' by generations of Brabourne Hostel students, a fierce Old English creature) discussing with the hostel matrons,

"Hans (duck) as well as dak (duck)? Duckduck? How was that possible?"

Karl Hass, German SS war criminal, might have been a monarchist.

Captain Lightoller (RMS Titanic), an anti-monarchist, stayed at 1, Duckworth Place in London, also called 1 Duck's Walk.  

Who had set up such a play within Brabourne Hostel?

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The following would come up for global discussions, after the Iran deal, for any emerging consensus about NASA, whether the Indian obsession with working for NASA was about space or astronomy or something else altogether.

i. Was there a total solar eclipse in Oct 1995?

ii. If we were to "stay with the here and now" or "better be inside", the threats made to Antara over the last few hours, if Antara was somehow "polluting the environment" similar to what was felt in Europe of the 1930s, then was the Oct 1995 solar eclipse actually a solar eclipse? Or was it the "fall of Ajit"? 

What did NASA have to say?

iii. Anjali had shown no inclination to travel to Ajodhya Hills in Purulia, the closest location from where the totality of the solar eclipse would be visible. Did she not understand how eclipses occurred? 

Or was she afraid of the Lutheran Church, which had once employed a close relative of hers at Ajodhya Hills in Purulia (around seven years) for the Israel-Gaza unified entity of the future? 

iv. Anjali didn't use the mechanism Antara had made at home for watching the partial solar eclipse (as it was in Asansol) either. 

If NASA was the fallback option if the Gaza Board of Peace failed, why did it keep up its 'outer space' front? At least the Indian obsession with NASA would be understood in terms of the Jewish homeland.

If Anjali had no scientific interests, how did her descendants become such scientific stalwarts? 

v. Among those who went to Ajodhya Hills in Purulia, railways peon Anshu had said, "Strange was the totality, whole body went cold"/ "body-ta thanda hoye gelo". Anjali often referred to it in the subsequent years, so she was aware that NASA could turn the United States into a pro-Central Provinces and Berar country, as it seemed to have done in the mid-1990s.

Thus, Anjali took care of her elder daughter, marrying her into a Berar family, she took care of her 'younger' daughter who settled in San Diego, California and the supposedly adopted daughter Antara? 

Antara would pick a battle with Berar, NASA Bhopali would attack the US Air Force and just about any Bhopali, with or without Surma, could tear her to pieces?

vi. Somewhere around those days of the Oct 1995 solar eclipse, Noida came for a visit to the Housing flat. She had missed some Eng Lit classes at Junior College Brabourne, it was the Diwali vacation, she wanted to copy what was taught at class from Antara. 

Was Anjali correct in assuming that Noida was elated at Ajit's fall and had come to celebrate? 

Or was Antara wrong in assuming that when it came to the British, Noida would have followed Antara but Berar's grip on NASA became the problem?

vii. Because of deliberate misrepresentation and propaganda by Anjali's side, Antara was becoming the target of vicious wives. They could shout abuses at her doorstep for years and decades, she couldn't even confront a few workers who had dug deep trenches around her. 

The time has come for an elaborate and public discussion of Anjali's life.

June 20-21, 2026.

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Noem, Bondi, US Govt's stature

 ix. a. Do we need to revisit the notion that Antara was the brightest in her class at Asansol AG Church, with exceptional IQ?

It wouldn't be a bad idea, given the West Bengal Govt. 

The latter would thrive on United States-related trivia gathered by the Tagores, especially Rathindranath and Abanindranath, through the 1930s and 1940s. As that information was shared among middle-aged Bengali women, there'd be a quiz contest hurled at Antara every step of the way.

b. Except Noida, were Asansol AG girls actually furious that Antara had won an inter-school quiz contest in the 1990s?

Not really. The Asansol AG girls participated in a lot of events and pageantry, they were always busy. But Antara's achievement looked respectable abroad, quizzing was a male-specific domain, north Kolkata went berserk, "how could it be allowed to happen, the curse of July 20 1944 was meant to be inherited only by Antara, not the sibling, that horrifying 'burn' for the British, how could this be etc?"

When faced with such melodrama and exaggerated behaviour, Asansol AG females apparently said that for the rest of their lives, they'd accept Tagore factoids from the US and keep teaching Antara a lesson. Indians would become known for their brutal efficiency.

c. Oh! The events following the Iran War 2026 (lack of consensus on ceasefire etc) were about the emails sent to Ms Good Girl Decent, she didn't find any evidence that Antara knew about prominent female American politicians from the 1950s who disliked the legit lease and were willing to help the Global South defeat it.

Ms Good Girl Decent timed the US Navy coup in a strange way. It was assumed that she worked with Britney Spears (Spears--borsha--rainfall--Monsoon--Kaplan Education and Chetla--WaPo). 

It was an interesting line of inquiry till you discovered that all Ms Good Girl Decent did was to track the north Kolkata crude oil ownership, when she'd suggest that "let Communists swim with the tide" and defer the US Navy coup.

d. How did that work? Did they transfer the shares of crude oil ownership?

Yeah, apparently for tax credits. It didn't make sense, they'd have to use the NRIs at some point? 

It seemed likely that shell companies within the Pentagon would be used, it allowed them WWII remembrances, which would otherwise have been disallowed by now.

e. So US Govt's rata-rata-rat-tat problems.

Yeah, those were the ones.

f. Such individuals as Ms Good Girl Decent would also swim against the tide?

They did! Why else did Chetla have to fall back on Indian resources, halfway across the world, for her daily purposes?

It was interesting, for maintaining her supremacy in the tech world, Chetla used NS Road's exceptional Prussian information on Washington DC. Brin and Page ate out of her hand.

To prevail against the Germans within NATO, Chetla used Indian State information. The Germans were outraged and without options. Chetla never feared anyone.

g. Was it possible to confirm it? That Asansol AG had willingly given up on Larry Bell and WWI?

Yes. For Tobe Hooper. The mastermind of 1980-Mykolaiv. Hooper knew how to destroy Lenin, apparently. Russia and the Global South worshipped him, the one that could 'shred' Lenin. 

Antara's weekend lunches (June 6-7, 2026) were piled high with shredded boiled eggs and tons of black pepper, how everyone was raging against Lenin.

Tobe Hooper was "worth a thousand Larry Bells, all that Larry Bell had wanted was to get a spouse for Antara", which she did on June 7, 2006. 

No one from her side was invited.

June 7, 2026.

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x. Dear Sharmila and Shabari,

They have understood that when we threatened Agency and meant to shut it down, when we showed 'framed' lit-up windows at high schools that were closed for the day, we meant the DoD, that for our purposes, Agency meant military officials, not the Agency officials per se.

What do you think, would they get upset over what we did with Rush?

It was Mon2's idea, surely his profile suggested G2? Why couldn't we follow along the path he had shown us?

The Protege still believed the ABP propaganda fed to her, that 'Life began at 75'. 

Was there any need to introduce her to 'Life began in 1999', relevant for German intelligence, after the declaration of the BA/BSc Part I University results? 

She was loyally following the S&P Global-German intelligence path but sometimes such loyalty becomes striking, somewhat unnerving. 

You were right, we had the Kaiser's father and his understanding with the US Govt. His death anniversary was coming up, on June 15. 

As of now, the Protege didn't know that Kataria was controlling her lunch orders, using it to send information against her, how to control the situation if anyone tried to help.

Often, when I think of the 'Taylor Chummy' friendship between the Protege and her best friend in college, it seemed like the perfect recipe for the RMS Titanic scenario. 

However, someone recently found out that for a 'braced parasol-wing monoplane', Protege apparently hated braces when she was at Asansol AG, she didn't go anywhere near girls who wore braces. She was not too fond of the parasol either, altogether giving it up when she moved to Delhi.

Mon2 had the correct details? There was so much depending on the 'shift of the premises', 'Taylor Chummy' college friends, "side by side, on an open cockpit". 

We couldn't afford further mistakes, what if Protege told everyone that she hated the front passenger seat as well, she used it only when no one was visiting?

If Brabourne and 'Life began in 1999' couldn't hold it together, then Protege's marriage and spouse would become real, not something temporary or ephemeral. 

Yours and hoping for better success,

Tia.

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Dear Tia,

Let's proceed with caution, about what you seemed to be suggesting. You were probably not aware of how strange the situation had become in the life of the Protege and her spouse.

Around four years ago, once the Russia-Ukraine War had started, or maybe when the troops were massing on the Russian border, deep trenches were dug all over the Protege's locality. The work proceeded slowly, regardless of the inconvenience to the residents, who often couldn't reach their staircases because of the trenches.

"Never mind Ukraine, WWI and its trenches seemed to have been dug all around us by the CPUSA," the Protege had said. 

That year in 2022, the Protege discovered that if she uttered the word 'CPUSA', she'd have terrifying Lenin nightmares for the next several nights, crying out, shrieking, howling in her sleep.

As the work had wrapped up in 2022, it was mentioned that it had only been about internet cables for Jio, it was happening all over the country. 

In 2026, even as we wrote the blog, there were trenches deeper than in 2022, all over the locality, this time it was probably sewer lines, several residents had their backup reservoirs removed.

The purpose of these anecdotes, Tia, was to convince you that there was little possibility of Noida and Protege meeting in this lifetime. If ICSE 1995's winner and victim didn't meet, the blog would be the only way out. Was Noida not getting the seriousness of the situation?

It was Brabourne Hostel's Junior College dorm, it was probably way past 11 pm, Noida had come towards the dorm entrance, Protege's bed was the second one on the left, and wanted to sleep there for the night. The Protege couldn't recall if it was the weekend and the dorm was quite empty, if Noida was afraid for some reason.  

Soon, like a fury, the Hostel's Assistant Superintendent showed up, she had retired but was on extension, a big and bulky woman, hitched sarees up to her knees even if it wasn't raining, her untidy grey hair which she never combed, on an inspection tour of the hostel that wasn't supposed to take place at such a late hour.

"What was happening here, two girls on the same bed?" she shouted, the Protege had just put up the mosquito netting on her bed. "Was it a college hostel or something else, how dare you, don't you have any manners?" (It was the mid-1990s, the sale of British Houses had started.)

The Protege was excused since she hadn't invited Noida, the latter agreed to formally apologise at the Superintendent's office the next day. 

Always afraid of those red ants, the Protege had suggested an excuse to Noida, "Tell them there were red ants on your bed, that way you'd have a plausible explanation."

Noida went to formally apologise the next day, came back happy, "I told them it was a mistake on my part and I was sorry about it."

Tia, holding a pioneering aircraft company hostage, in the US, to control a supposed lease heir, since the 1930s, was not a hypothesis the Protege knew how to test. 

The Protege's father always wore ordinary clothes, his shirts and trousers were made by a local tailor, it didn't seem any arrangement with an aviation company had helped him elevate himself. Through the 1980s, often during Durga Pujo, the Protege's father got no new clothes for himself, so it was not about forcing a lease in his name either. 

Worse, relatives often bought 'shirt pieces' as gift for the Protege's father when they visited, what did it imply, 'peace with Madritsch'?

And if the Protege and her sibling started shopping for their father's clothes from the early 1990s, it was because Taylorcraft's (aviation) proprietor had passed away in March 1988 (when Protege was in Class 3A), not because of the economic liberalisation that followed soon after.

Tia, the Protege was under strict instructions to not betray any vendetta yet the adversary expected her to bring the unemployment (14 years this September) and torture-surveillance to court. 

Without vendetta? How?

Had Noida showed a dislike of Communists, the Protege wouldn't have ended up in the unenviable position of becoming a "self-taught aeronautical engineer or IT professional" in order to survive the nephews.

The Protege had made choices, for studying literature, politics, history, journalism, working in the news media on those topics.

What happened to all of it, Tia, how did the stupendous reversal come about?

Yours

Shabari.

June 13-14, 2026.

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