Commendable

First, my apologies for disappearing without a trace. There was a death in the family and I used it as an excuse not to check my email for a few days and only filed what I had to file. I'm off to Calcutta today evening on a work related trip, the first time I'm going that side of teh world on work. The last few times I've been to Calcutta it has always been related to births, weddings and funerals. And not surprisingly I'm off to Calcutta again next week again - for death related purposes. Then again, like most second-gen 'probashi' Bongs I don't have much to go back for. My father is talking about selling the house I grew up in, most of my cousins are anywhere but Calcutta and those who aren't married to Calcutta want to leave.
Anyway, enough of that...
Abhinav Bindra's Gold was a pleasant surprise and despite DD screwing up most of the Olympic broadcast (cutting out at crucial times - yesterday's Basketball game for example) and me getting sick of the Ministry of Rural Development's adverts, they got Abhinav's competition bang-on. In fact, even the DD commentators were building the country up for failure talking of the Olympic spirit and how 'commendable' it was that we are taking part. The philosophy of it not being important to win. Bindra hopefully will change all that and if I were you I would not go to Delhi airport on the 14th, when Bindra returns, it will be the biggest jamboree ever.