<p>Updated: Sat, Mar 16 2013. 12 26 AM ISTEarlier this week I was suddenly, and without any obvious reason, plunged into deep nostalgia for the London 2012 Olympics. Maybe I walked past a large group of people dressed identically except for one imposter. Perhaps it was this whole Vijender Singh controversy.</p><p>Whatever it was, suddenly I was pining for those 16 days of sheer delight. I was lucky enough to be in London for the duration of the Olympics last year, and to write about it for this newspaper. I even applied for and got tickets to go and see a few events.</p><p>The whole experience will remain one of life's great, unforgettable 16-day-long moments. Ah, what joy it was, waking up in the morning, planting myself in front of a TV screen, jogging back and forth through the 30-odd BBC channels exclusively streaming Olympics and overdosing on sports. To this day, the BBC's Olympics theme music plays through my head note for note, and I get a little misty-eyed every time.</p><p>I told the missus about my sudden relapse into Olympics nostalgia, and soon we were discussing how well, in general, London had pulled it all off. The city didn't come to a standstill, bridges didn't fall, stadiums didn't get shelved and there certainly weren't endless corruption scandals. (Not yet, in any case.)</p><p><a href="http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/JDkUsfcdATqF3fWXaCZRuN/Sidin-Vadukut-Learning-to-fight-fire.html">Keep reading...</a></p>