Indian women shuttlers led by Saina Nehwal gave the country a golden double to take India to a historic second place finish. Saina rallied brilliantly from a first game loss to finally mow down Mew Choo Wong of Malaysia to win the gold, while the duo of Ashwini Ponnappa and Jwala Gutta captured the doubles crown.Though the much hyped Men's Hockey team was mauled by Australia 8-0 in the final, the double gold in Badminton piloted India to the second spot in the medals tally with 38 gold, 27 silver and 36 bronze.The hosts also added a bronze in table Tennis when Poulomi Ghatak and Mouma Das trounced Australian duo in the women's doubles title.England finished third with a total haul of 37 gold, 59 silver and 46 bronze, while Australia ended up in the top position with a huge heist of 74 gold, 55 silver and 48 bronze in the final tally.India not only played the perfect host to the largest ever sporting extravaganza but also showed that it has emerged as a sporting nation. Winning its highest number of medals, India jumped to spots from its previous best to take the position next only to Australia.Ending 52 years of drought, Indian women's team made a clean sweep in discuss throw winning the Gold, Silver and the bronze medals and by winning the 4X400 meters relay and other medals.It has finally discovered its strengthened in athletics and archery and registered its presence in gymnastics.In shooting, India once again proved its mettle getting 31 medals, 14 golds so also wrestling, winning ten golds.Saina Nehwal won the hearts when she won last gold of the games for India and the first in women''s singles in badminton in the history of the games.There were moments of disappointment too. High hopes from Leander Paes and Sania Mirza in Tennis introduced for first time in the Commonwealth Games but India had to settle with just one gold.The games also discovered that Indian men can play the fast pace hockey, though they went down tamely to the Commonwealth champion, Australia gave moments to cheer when they defeated first Pakistan and then England to reach the finals for the first time in the history of the games.Indian boxers also performed better than expected with Women bagged more than one third in the overall Indian tally as well as gold medals. There is no doubt that it is with confidence that India will begin its journey from here to Glasgow for the next Commonwealth games.