Remembering Commonwealth
Sports aficionados have a big multi-sport event coming up on July 23. India is fielding a fairly large contingent for Glasgow (Scotland) Commonwealth Games beginning June 24. Events on mammoth stages like sporting events have always been used to make statements of different kinds. Now, of course, every event has to worry about a terror threat or impending attack. So to put some mirth into the morbid, here is a cartoon that was doing the rounds four years ago, when the Games were in Delhi (and the Suresh Kalmadi controversy) that followed. Anyway, at that time too reports were trickling in about a terror threat to the Games and this newspaper had published a memorable cartoon keeping an eye on the reports. As the Games loom, we reproduce the cartoons. Some grim laughs in an often dark world.