INDIAN SUMMER!

I'm sittiing in my office at 5:30 p.m. local time, watching the world feed of the Spain-China basketball game. It is halftime. There is entertainment. From what I can glimpse (the stationary camera is locted in the far corner, top, of the arena) it looks as if it's a group of young men leaping off a trampoline to dunk the ball. Chinese acrobats. I love it.

If you've been to at least half a dozen NBA or WNBA games in the past five years, you've probably seen that Asian woman who spins all the plates while riding a unicycle. Where is she?

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There's pandemonium in Punjab.

Yesterday Abhinav Bindra became the first individual gold medalist in the history of India, and the first gold medalist of any kind since 1980. India was a field hockey potentate from World War II until 1980, but this year they did not even qualify to send a squad to Beijing.

Then along came Bindra, a steady-nerved shooter known to his friends as "Constant Comatose", to take gold in the 10-meter air rifle. Ever so slowly India, which is second only to China in population count, is creeping up on their neighbors to the north in the medal count. The Asian Age newspaper proclaimed Bindra "ONE IN A BILLION" in its front-page headline. Very nice. 

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Spring Time!