The summer of 2027 had set in early March is usually a confused month in Delhi with a spread of warm afternoons, windy evenings, cool nights and even occasional spells of rain. Bet the visitors who came for the funeral of Andolan party Prime Minister, Biplab Bardhan stepped out of Terminal Three of Delhi's space age airport into blistering heat. At least it is better than the horrible bitter fog which is a Killer for my asthma and makes me choke... said the eldest son of Gurjarmal Tolani to one of the twin boys of Umrao Singh. He was referring to the countrywide episodes of yellow-grey and totally opaque banks of smog which descended from nowhere and without warning let a bitter aftertaste Taking shape around 2016-17, the weather pattern was now part of life in Indian metros The three youths climbed down the five steps from the twenty-four-seater up-to-the-minute private aircraft created by Raytheon and christened Geronimo, custom-made for the super tycoon Umrao Singh only two years ago. The American President, Republican Morgan Jackson was due to land within minutes, and the pilot of Geronimo had to be hustled into the private apron as the Secret Service and Active Ops personnel briefly took over the areas around the runway (At least he isa change from a succession of actors, blacks, Jews, sex-maniacs, battle-obsessed father and son combos and even one Mormon we have seen recently, commented the man from the Ministry of External Affairs to his personal assistant in what he thought was a clever aside.) Mordecai Levy, head of the Israeli Mossad, the French President and the chairman of the Central Committee from the People's Republic were to land in quick succession, to give nightmares to the chief of protocol, further complicated by the impending arrival of Taiwan's feisty head of state, a personal friend of the late Bardhan. His flight was delayed by six hours facing engine trouble and inevitably complicating the protocol department's clever separation of the arrival times of Republic of China and Island China. No such problems stood in the way of the afternoon landing of House of Commons speaker, Kailash Chitranarayan Somaji, now in his eighties, had turned down a ride in Geronimo, and was coming by the Skyways commercial flight later in the evening. He was to be met by the personal security detail of the acting prime minister. The old man functioned with the support of a walker, and was cursed with failing vision, but had a smile on his face through the flight while sipping lemon juice to keep company with Rajat Chowdhury sitting next to him sipping a single malt whiskey choked with ice. Thank the lord and the Lok Dal prime minister for the easing of alcohol laws in 2015, Rajat reflected.
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