2024 back on poll trek, the world Lalu will see Lalu Prasad will be aged 77 in 2024 when he becomes eligible again to contest elections, assuming the five-year jail sentence pronounced on Thursday remains intact after the appeals process. What kind of a world, real as well as unreal, will greet Lalu Prasad when he steps back into the electoral arena? REAL • Rahul Gandhi, who killed the ordinance that would have given Lalu a breather, will be 54 in 2024. Nitish Kumar, who may gain the most from Lalu’s absence, will be 73. Narendra Modi, the reason the Congress allegedly wanted to help out Lalu, will be 74 • Hema Malini, whose cheeksbecame Lalu’s yardstick for smooth roads, will be 76 • India will be just a year away from overtaking China as the world’s most populous nation. More boys will be born than girls but women beginto outnumber men among people in their late 40s in the world • Can the greatest political comedy of all time be forgotten when Lalu is mentioned? The Complete Yes Prime Minister: The Diaries of the Right Hon. James Hacker was supposed to have been published in 2024 after the death of the fictional Hacker (in picture, played by Paul Eddington), one of the three principal characters. But the BBC jumped the gun and published it in 1989 • If Lalu wants to retire and gaze at the sky, the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a radio telescope in development in Australia and South Africa, will be ready that year. It will be able to survey the sky 10,000 times faster than ever before • For the man who coined “Jab tak samosa mein rahega aalu, Bihar mein rahega Lalu”, 2024 will be a landmark year for his beloved potato. The plant breeder’s exclusive rights for Argos, a high-yielding variety of potato, will expire that year UNREAL (DON’T BET ON IT) • Who’s Uncle Harry Potter, teens ask • Sachin Tendulkar (51) alone can take a call when he should retire, says former cricketer Virat Kohli (36). Arjun Tendulkar (25) declines to comment • Jagdish Bhagwati wins the Nobel and stops sniping at Amartya Sen/still awaits the Nobel and takes pot shots at Amartya Sen • Bengal still hates Greg Chappell for dropping Sourav Ganguly in 2006 • Hillary Clinton may be ending her second term as first woman US President • The PrimeMinisters of India and Pakistan hold “cordial” and “constructive” talks on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly • Watch this space. If newspapers are still around the way we know them, we will tell you how right or wrong we were
Posted on: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 01:36:53 +0000
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