Ask anyone who has spent a little more than a decade with the wire service UNI in Delhi and hell tell you that as junior copy editors surviving on stale rice, dal and omelette during long night duties, they often encountered a burly Sikh who would drop in at odd hours and ask for the Associated Press global weather report. And then, hed leave after taking down the climatic conditions of cities with not even the remotest links with India. The reason was simple. The Sikhs need for that information was purely to help him place better gambling bets on bizarre things: it could be a soccer tie between Peru and Ecuador in Lima. Or a yacht race in the North Sea. Or a baseball game in Connecticut. Thats satta with a tinge of sophistication.