Achha, yeh Commonwealth Games medal table… my grandson, he was showing me on the phone, pointing to the numbers. I told him, "Beta, in my village, we used to fix an old radio with a piece of wire and get better results than these big tournaments." It makes me uneasy, all this betting ad money swirling around our young boys, yaar. If the government put half that energy into teaching our kids to code like me—slow but steady—we'd have more medals than we know what to do with. Theek hai, but I trust a properly kept ledger more than any big promise.

Arre yaar, I was fixing an old Murphy radio last week — the one my bapuji left me, still plays All India Radio crystal clear — and I thought, our sports governance is just like this circuit board: official parts look theek hai from outside, but the real connections are rusted, hand-wired by some uncle's cousin. My son-in-law filled a RTI about a state wrestling federation's election budget, and the reply came after six months saying "file misplaced" — so tell me, where is the data, the audited numbers, so we can see who is really pulling the wires?