Wish a name upon a shooting star

Twisted criminal genius who tried to nuke Fort Knox in 1959, as chronicled by Ian Fleming. Also, popular epithet for Indian shooting stars. We are like this only. The despairing prayers of a billion have been answered and we have our first individual Olympic gold. Abhinav Bindra’s win is desperately important to us. India has been shooting for gold since 1952, when the marksman Harihar Banerjee participated in the Helsinki Olympics. We came within striking distance in 2004, when Rajyavardhan Rathore took a silver at Athens. And the way we welcomed Bindra home on Wednesday night, with a brass band and impromptu bhangra dancers, left no doubt that this is a shot in the arm for us. Being a well-meaning but confused race, we immediately started calling Bindra Goldfinger, which is the name of a criminal who made millions smuggling... [read full story]