The international media has finally stopped trying to pick on stray dogs and snakes, and admitted the inevitable: India has arrived. The 3.5 hour ceremony began on the dot, and was executed with brilliant smoothness and perfection, without a hitch, and everyone has taken notice.
And in my opinion, after all the brickbats, Kalmadi should get an ovation too. Yes, he bungled, but come on, some lose ceiling tiles, collapse of a foot bridge due to faulty equipment, and some dirty toilets long before the D Day - that's a very small list of failures in a 75000 crore endeavour!
Did you see the English contingent in their smart white and red Nehru collar kurtas and jackets? Wasn't that so cool?
The Aerostat was the star of the show, but do you know it is capable of a lot more? For example, it was supposed to also take along 25 drummers along with it when it rose into the sky, but it lost some of it's buoyancy and hence only the puppets went up. It's lights and camera were also not functioning for various other reasons... maybe it'll be on for the closing show.
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