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After the expose concerning the HT years 2010-2012, the discussion turned to the implications for Alice Weidel (AfD), a product of that Delhi that Antara was unaware of, and if Antara would like to change the course of her work.

"You were deliberately put on a slow, dead-end path, what you called 'allusions', which wouldn't translate into real-world privilege. It was connected to AfD, its Alice Weidel and Bodo Ramelow, political events in Germany, beginning from 2012-13. Would you like to change to something that provided faster results?"

Antara was not sure what 'results' meant, was it something that actually belonged to her but either Prominent Personality or some Other Brabourne Worthy walked off with?

Antara had two responses to the above: as mentioned before, she wanted her work to become a permanent resume, so as to set 'industry standards'. Antara had been repeatedly told since 2018 that the methods she used, the way she innovated, were invaluable to the intelligence industry. She didn't consider the NRI-IIT challenges over, so she didn't want to give up on 'allusions'.

Antara was also told that the love for learning and an academic nature was found among the victims of Auschwitz, the Franks and the Edelmanns. 

"The last thing the London-based PR firm wanted mentioned were those Jewish girls, everything else was fine with it. The problem was, one couldn't solve Treasury problems without mentioning the Franks and the Edelmanns, no matter how London-based PR firms felt about it."

So yes, Antara would like to continue with her 'allusions' work.

April 5, 2025. 

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Antara's 'alliance of convenience' with Germans has been cancelled, with immediate effect, because of the IIT problem.

"The IITs had always been against the legit lease, right from their start, and were now actively cooperating with the German Nazis. Thus, Antara would not be able to manage the situation. Everyone has to take extreme precaution against the Germans, especially those interested in solving HT 2010-2012 and the role of Chinese intelligence in fomenting the Books page trouble."

For those not in the know: The above HT problem was related to Operation Barga, a land reform movement from 1978 which introduced landholding rights to sharecroppers in Bengal. 

"And what else would the ghosts of Burgess and Maclean keep achieving for the peasants of Bengal," Bengalis of Kolkata had erupted in fury. 

HT 2010-2012 was their vengeance, enacted out of guest houses in Ballygunje.

"Even today, the concept of cheap hotels and guest houses fills Kolkata with dread," Antara had been told. "Kolkata prefers homestays or luxury hotels."

April 5, 2025. 

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On Science: Antara had always been advised that whatever science one needed in life was taught in high school, maybe up to senior high school/Classes 11 and 12. Rest of Science should be picked up on one's own, which Antara regularly did. She recently checked out the syllabi of an Indian exam system, GATE entrance for MTech in genetics/biotech and Antara seemed to be updated on the subject matter.

On research recommendations: Back in 2017, Antara had read into graphene (part of Materials Science) and had been convinced about its potential as a 'breakthrough material'. However, her recommendations were altogether ignored. Not surprising, given the first Donald Trump Presidential term and its archival research within the House.

On space exploration: Antara remained an Earth-bound person, she preferred building bigger and better telescopes and scanning the universe. Such exercises created millions of photos, if Indians were genuinely interested in space, they could spend a lifetime just finding out new meanings from those photos and following it up with required calculations, another Earth-bound activity. How the human body changed after prolonged exposure to non-Earth like conditions was 'no can do' for Antara. 

On militarising the Moon: Antara thought it was a waste of time.

Any human activity on the Moon: Antara was always the last student served in Library class, back in school at Asansol AG Church, what she never tired of recounting to others. The book rejected by everyone from the pile usually ended up with her. In the late 1980s, one of these was about an American family of four relocated to the Moon. They were not looking for rare minerals but trying to replicate human life on Earth on the Moon, and it was a trying experience.

April 5, 2025. 

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Mr Summers' further career would be about AT Das and his wife, why their family in Purulia was broken apart in 1991.

April 4, 2025. 

See-saw, hurry up and down (43)

There were apprehensions, would Chetla order celebratory parties for DOGE and similar achievements?

Antara liked dancing at parties but she never did so, lest her batchmates felt affronted. The one exception was at Brabourne as an undergraduate, in the late 1990s. It was someone's birthday, girls were dancing post-dinner at the darkened end of one of the top-floor corridors, Antara had gone with a 'close friend'. It turned out, the 'close friend' was no dancer and kept copying Antara's moves. 

Antara would like to think that till Bengali economists were sure what they wanted to do with David KE Bruce of OSS, no one was likely to dance in India.

April 4, 2025.

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Antara had recently learnt from an Indian source, "You know, all this problem the US Govt had with DOGE, it was about one of your relatives, Brother 5 or Subhash of Purulia. The Bengalis of Kolkata made such an assertion, arguing why was AT's side chosen by the Israelis given BT's frightful knowledge of the Holocaust?" 

(Antara recently wrote about AT and BT in terms of the House though she was not aware that DOGE was based on it.)

Antara was not even convinced that Brother 5 was on the Israeli side. She had always thought he was STAVKA, maybe therefore Israeli. When visiting Purulia in the 1980s and 90s, Antara spent many hours at Brother 5 and wife's home, they let her go through their things, left her alone. 

Apart from their subscriptions to the Soviet-era Progress Publishers and its newsletters in envelopes, there were many Russian books, translated to Bengali.

One of these was a tattered but illustrated copy of Anton Chekhov's short story, 'Kashtanka', about a mixed-breed mongrel dog. Brother 5 and his wife gave it away to Antara, she brought it home to Asansol. 

Growing up, Antara didn't have a pet dog, not till the late 1990s, and 'Kashtanka' was like her own domesticated pet. The cover was in dark green and black, considerably torn, with the droopy-faced mongrel staring back. 

Unless certain things were second-hand in life, who would argue for a legit lease?

April 4, 2025.

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There were considerable doubts raised from the previous post (No 40). How could Antara strike 'alliances of convenience' with the Germans without solving the Navy? Would it not strengthen the Karl Donitz gang there, what would happen with HT 2010-12? 

Antara had once read a Russian STAVKA story, it was about two brothers, Grisha and Joe (not Biden). Grisha had a wife but ignored and ill-treated her for a local seductress. 

If you decide to focus on Grisha and not on Joe, then the legit lease would be safe since our Grisha cavorted with the Kolkata-based SUCI. 

If the legit lease was safe, then one could strike an 'alliance of convenience' with the Germans.

April 4, 2025.