India did it, after all....
Despite all controversy over lack of preparedness, inefficiency, confusion and corruption, India gave the world, and the Commonwealth, its best Games ever.
Despite all controversy over lack of preparedness, inefficiency, confusion and corruption, India gave the world, and the Commonwealth, its best Games ever.
Its total tally of 101 medals was an unimaginable best ever, beside its triumph at pipping England to the second best position in the over all ranking of medals tally based on the number of gold medals won. With 2 more golds won on the final day taking their total golds to 38, India overtook England's gold tally of 37, a figure which England had reached with a whopping haul of six golds on the penultimate day.
In the fitness of things, the Closing Ceremony also show-cased the martial arts tradition of India performed by 800 artistes from different states of India. Not many know that the now much touted judo, kung-fu, tae-kwan-do and related Chinese, Korean and Japanese martial arts all evolved from our own Kerala;s Kalaripayattu - knowledge of which was carried to mainland China by the greatest of (Chinese) voyagers ever even before the time of all the great voyagers we studied about in history recorded by the British to suit their agenda.
Maxie
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Maxwell Pereira IPS (Retd.)
3725 Sector-23, Gurgaon-122017
In the fitness of things, the Closing Ceremony also show-cased the martial arts tradition of India performed by 800 artistes from different states of India. Not many know that the now much touted judo, kung-fu, tae-kwan-do and related Chinese, Korean and Japanese martial arts all evolved from our own Kerala;s Kalaripayattu - knowledge of which was carried to mainland China by the greatest of (Chinese) voyagers ever even before the time of all the great voyagers we studied about in history recorded by the British to suit their agenda.
Maxie
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Maxwell Pereira IPS (Retd.)
3725 Sector-23, Gurgaon-122017
