New Delhi Olympics

There always is a very good reason why the archetypal sport official and the seasoned politician ~ they can be one and the same and examples abound ~ are in pursuit of the same objective, usually eloquent in making a virtue of necessity. If you remember Rio, all you as an Indian wanted to know was whether PV Sindhu would bag the gold. When it turned out to be the silver, you settled for it all right, quite thankful that the girl had saved our collective face.