Delhi Last year’s stubbed toes in Delhi over India’s first shot at hosting the Commonwealth Games are still in the news in the wake of continued outrage at the national embarrassment caused by the widespread corruption that revealed shoddy construction and desultory preparations. The headlines were full of charges and counter charges as [...]
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Mumbai The Mumbai-based newspaper, DNA or Daily News & Analysis, hit the nail on the head in its Monday morning editorial entitled, “The Rot Behind CWG Facade Starts Showing.” After recounting the momentary success of the spectacle of the grand opening, they detailed some of the litany of problems past the quick cleanup and fresh [...] Delhi Arriving in Delhi everyone from cabdrivers to front page headlines in the Times of India and every other paper led with the medal surge for India in shooting and wrestling which propelled the country to second place in early standings. They could take a small amount of pride since every other story emerging [...] Ho Chi Minh City The name of the deputy director of the Indian organizing committee is Lalit Bhanot. His aside to the Indian press corps as he tried to do damage control for the disaster has created a national controversy in India, and from the page of the New York Times should lead to [...] http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39320649/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/ Chicago As we pack to leave for Vietnam and another great Organizers’ Forum dialogue and then to India, the Commonwealth Games is on a death watch. New Zealand, Scotland, and the Welsh put the games on alert. Canada, which is crucial to the games and has been silently allowing all of the displacement [...] New Orleans In Delhi 250,000 of our slum dwellers have been displaced in order to allow the Delhi Municipal Corporation and India to preen before the dozens of countries coming to the Commonwealth Games being hosted in the country for the first time. Tens of thousands of our bicycle rickshaw pullers and other informal workers [...] Houston Watching the World Cup in South Africa, reading the stories in the Times from slums outside of Johannesburg, makes me look at the calendar for the countdown to the next huge international sports event: The Commonwealth Games! In October teams from all over the former colonies of the British Empire will be parachuting [...] |
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