August 11, 2008

Shooting Star

Abhinav will be the favored name for all new born males in India for a while. Reality shows will invite him to pronounce judgment on bump and grind routines being done by 10 year olds. Mahesh Bhatt or somebody from Bollywood will announce a film that chronicles Abhinav’s life story – complete with a Rakhi Sawant doing an item number in the last scene when the hero wins a gold medal at the Olympics. And why not? Unlike countries like China, US, Japan, Korea and so many of the East European countries, we have it easy. After all we do not have 30 gold medal winners, 40 silver and 52 bronze medal winners in every Olympics to celebrate.