Gold - At last .........

"WHO WILL GET CREDIT IS THE BIGGEST QUESTION"

Did not think would see this during my lifetime - but India has won its first individual gold medal at the Olympics, 2008.
Abhinav Bindra won the Gold in the 10 meter Air Rifle event.
Dont think we as Indians are going to be able to handle this. We are going to go overboard and will eventually overkill the guy's success.

My prediction is that this is what may happen:
1) TV channels will interview Bindra's doodhwala/paperwali/kaamwali bai, 4th std art teacher, extended family etc. They will all take credit for shaping up the young man's future. 4 years stock of Kaju Barfi will pour into the Bindra's house, enough to make Abhinav overweight which prevents him from contesting in the next Olympics.
2) KPS Gill will take credit for his success. I dont know "how" but he will somehow convince all of us that he is responsible for the gold.
3) Suresh Kalmadi will claim the "Dronacharya Award" for training Bindra and get it too. "It was me who sold him a second hand Alto @ Rs. 80k so he could come and train at my Sai Service petrol pumps all over India".
4) Bollywood - Bindra will be the hottest bachelor in tinsel town. Actresses will be his bum chums and the next RVG release - Gun Master G-10 will have him in the leading role.
5) Politics - Bindra will be elected as a MP before he steps onto Indian shores
6) Rishta for franship and marriage will start pouring in
7) Advertising- he will be the new face of Lux, Amul Underwear, Nike, Lays, LIC etc to name a few. Watch out SRK.....
8) Caste wars- various castes will battle it out to proclaim that Bindra belongs to their caste. This will lead to widespread violence with people being shot between the eyes from 10 meters (no pun intended)

I could go on but I could not run the 100 meters in under 16.8 seconds. Hats off to the guy. Really makes me proud to be an Indian....atleast for a few days.

India- Phoren Policy

The Maoist will be in power in Nepal a few days from now. I wonder what the Ministry of External Affairs does on a daily basis.India the rising Asian superpowers had failed to impose itself on any of its neighbors.
1) Nepal- we let the Chinese intrude and the 10 yr plan of bring the Maoist to power is finally working.
2) Bangladesh - a country we gave birth to in 1971 has spun out of control with Islamic groups using it as a base for "activities" in India. Last I heard 300000 illegal B'deshi immigrants were given Indian citizenship so as to make up the vote bank.
3) Sri Lanka- Lost control over it a long time ago. With the IPKF getting a licking at the hands of the LTTE little could be doen except withdraw to save face.
4) Pakistan- lesser said the better
5) China- really admire then for their planning and execution of long term plans. Be it the Olympics, Learning English or Kicking India's ass.

Scares me a bit!