The "Games for Scotland" programme will take place on 14 October - when Glasgow receives the Commonwealth Games flag from India at a ceremony in Delhi.
With a distinctive white beard, for years he was regularly seen at Pakistan's Wagah border crossing with India holding a Pakistani flag and wearing colour-co-ordinated clothing as the famous ceremony was played out each day.
And even while India flat panel TV sales were not as big as people hoped, Sony and Panasonic are apparently staking a claim in India, sticking their flag in the turf and hoping to take away market share from Samsung, The Economic Times reported on Tuesday.