As one editor aptly put it, after the Opening Ceremony the critics of the Commonwealth games are desperately trying to morph into fans. Well, not this one. First, the opening ceremony as viewed by thousand of ‘mango mens’ [aam admi] ,was certainly a shoddy telecast partially obscured by garish and ghastly adverts. Did the Doordarshan cameras have all the wrong angles or what? The TV commentary was utterly tired and boring. Second, what was that Commonwealth Anthem again? If a cricket mad country like India could swing to ‘Waka Waka’ a month before the Football mahakumbh in South...