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    The document criticizes the preparations for the 2010 Commonwealth Games held in Delhi, India. It notes that while India had 7 years to prepare, many venues were still incomplete just days before opening ceremonies. It describes unlivable athlete housing, broken infrastructure, and poor sanitation. The organizing committee is accused of corruption and inefficiency. Political leaders are blamed for not taking stronger action sooner. The author argues the games have humiliated India on the global stage and will negatively impact how youth see their country.

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    The document criticizes the preparations for the 2010 Commonwealth Games held in Delhi, India. It notes that while India had 7 years to prepare, many venues were still incomplete just days before opening ceremonies. It describes unlivable athlete housing, broken infrastructure, and poor sanitation. The organizing committee is accused of corruption and inefficiency. Political leaders are blamed for not taking stronger action sooner. The author argues the games have humiliated India on the global stage and will negatively impact how youth see their country.

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    The document criticizes the preparations for the 2010 Commonwealth Games held in Delhi, India. It notes that while India had 7 years to prepare, many venues were still incomplete just days before opening ceremonies. It describes unlivable athlete housing, broken infrastructure, and poor sanitation. The organizing committee is accused of corruption and inefficiency. Political leaders are blamed for not taking stronger action sooner. The author argues the games have humiliated India on the global stage and will negatively impact how youth see their country.

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    Nation’s pride at stake

    - Apoorv gupta

    Believing in the age old story, the CWG organizers are still riding the
    tortoise hoping it to win the race but this time, most probably, the rabbit is
    going to make it first and sadly enough they don’t know how to get off their
    slow and steady ‘vahan’.

    With India wining the bid for commonwealth games in november 2003, the stage
    was set to show the world that the idea of emerging India is no myth but reality. It
    was a golden opportunity to substantiate Incredible India – the image PR teams
    had created over a decade. And with 7 years of Preparation period we did have
    time at our disposal. So with India being the world’s fourth largest economy and
    having an elephantine pool of human and natural resources, it should have been a
    cake walk. But, with all those scamsters sitting at the top, all we have managed to
    do is to invite world criticism and disrepute to our motherland. With just six days
    remaining in the mega event everything looks to be in shambles with broken
    bridges, unlivable apartments, unhygienic surroundings and stray dogs roaming
    around.

    The real picture of our preparedness for the games first came out two months back
    when TIMES NOW exposed the dubious deals inked by the organizing committee
    and the state of affairs at the venues. Even with multi-crore scams coming into
    light the political top brass of our nation kept mum and allowed the OC to carry
    on. But with ten days remaining in the opening ceremony they finally picked up
    the wake up call. With PM Dr. Manmohan Singh coming into picture, things were
    expected to improve. He did take away the charge from OC and gave it to GoM;
    something he should have done a little earlier. Even giving the charge to GoM
    headed by Mr. Jaipal Reddy was rather disappointing. Down on spirit, What India
    needed was a public figure; someone like Rahul Gandhi who could inspire people
    and make them believe that they can do it. Even when analyzed politically, it
    would have been a fantastic move to enhance his public image because with India
    having a huge manpower holding a reasonable event is always possible and it
    could have been easily used to increase his admirers. With Rahul Gandhi hitting
    the right notes, a successful game under his leadership would have further
    consolidated his candidature for Prime Ministership.

    Then we have people at prime positions playing the Blame games. Indian Leaders
    have long been known for their diplomacy and balanced remarks but those
    responsible for organizing the games are as dumb as donkeys passing haywire
    comments in public. Ms. Sheila Dikshit, few days back, in a press conference said,
    “There may be water dripping somewhere…a wall may collapse due to rain. These
    minor hitches and glitches do come around.” It’s height of irresponsibility and
    shamelessness on the part of Delhi CM. What if a wall collapses on you Ms.
    Sheila Dikshit? Then we have OC secretary Mr. Lalit Bhanot passing the most
    unexpected and berserk statements ever. Two days back relating to dirty
    apartments he said, “Westerners have different standards of hygiene, we have
    different. Its nothing to be ashamed of.” What kind of an impression was he trying
    to give to the world about India? That Indians are filthy, that they are aboriginal,
    crude and incompetent. Mr. Bhanot if you cannot do things in a proper way atleast
    don’t give the impression that it is the Indian way doing things…the world is
    listening. And how can we forget Mr. Suresh Kalmadi; the person who promised
    us the best ever commonwealth games? He has been playing the blame games for
    past two months and simultaneously has been giving reassurances but now, when
    it is all out in public, he appears to be the new epitome of Corruption. To sum up
    the current situation I would borrow something from the movie 3 Idiots.
    Suresh kalmadi ne toh desh ka balatkar kar diya
    and with many of top athletes turning their backs to India it seems as if they are
    saying, “ithe, ithe, jahapanah tofa kabool karo”

    Rather then doing any good to India what these games have actually done is to
    expose India’s soft underbelly of corruption and inefficiency. It has taken India
    back atleast 20 years in the eyes of the world.

    What kind of Impression are the leaders giving to the younger generation? We
    don’t want to be looked upon as inferior and incompetent by the rest of the world.
    The games do have a demoralizing effect on the youth of this country. Everyday
    we hear something bad about CWG and the world critising us for our under
    preparedness. And think about those NRI’s living in uk, Canada, Australia and
    numerous other participating nations. Compared to them we are rather in a more
    comfortable situation. Atleast we don’t have to face our foreign counterparts in
    person. They have to face them everyday. Its hard to imagine how embarrassing
    the situation is for them. It may also become the cause for racist attacks for some
    time to come. Why do every time a bunch of inept people have to make us feel
    humiliated? Well humiliation is an understatement. After all this is over they will
    have to answer the whole nation.

    We do have a lot of lessons to learn from these games but as of now the only way
    we can salvage the image of India is by holding a reasonable game. The task is
    still achievable provided that the work is done efficiently. With some amount of
    prayers we can still pull this off.

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