But the preface to the Games, disturbing and embarrassing, lingered. Athletes were calling me from abroad, will it happen, should I come? I found my room at the Athletes’ Village layered with mitti, the toilet leaking, but some quick housekeeping fixed it. Of course, television channels insisted I had thrown a tantrum, hurled keys and demanded a single room, refusing to share with a wrestler. Admittedly, from some angles, shotgun shooter Mansher Singh does look like one, but he was my roommate. The TV story was disappointing yet almost predictable, for much of television journalism in India is
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