It was a return befitting a princess and Udupi’s golden girl Ashwini Akkunji, coming home from the Asian Games at Guangzhou, was overwhelmed by the love showered on her by the people of coastal Karnataka.
The immediate fallout of the Indian display and overall medal haul at the Delhi Commonwealth Games was elation, tinged with disbelief. Was this just a flash in the pan?
A month after producing their best-ever show in the Commonwealth Games, India underlined its rising sporting prowess by bagging the biggest medal haul in the Asian Games which concluded here on Saturday.