In the opening ceremony of the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games, the English delegation had wore kurta pyjama's and this came as a surprise to everyone. Here's the story behind it.
The English team didn't manage to find any sponsors for itself.
Now that is quite surprising,especially when its the Commonwealth Games, and organisations like Vodafone,Royal Bank of Scotland, Marks & Spencer, and so on are present in India. But still they somehow remained sponsorless. This comes as a shock as even miniature African and Asian nations have sponsors like Reebok and Nike if not the giants like Hero Honda like India has.
And neither was the English government kind enough to set some funds for a good clothing lineup for their contingent members. Maybe thats one reason why the queen didn't appear to set the games open(the primary speculation being the fact that only after India that all other british captured colonies started slipping out of Britain's hands, and as Gandhi ji said it rightly, within 50 years of India's independence, all other colonies got freed).
Britain...after Afghanistan.after Tony Blair, has some more reasons to get embarrased !
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