When have you heard a water project justified in the name of the games? (The Commonwealth Games Village strives to conserve water, but that is for publicity only; if water conservation were a concern, why would it be build on the environmentally sensitive flood plain of the Yamuna?) Tourists and athletes won’t be waiting in line at a public tap or swimming in our rivers, of course, so they are unlikely to notice that nearly half of the sewage in Delhi goes untreated into the Yamuna–and we waste nearly half of the clean water we do get due to crumbling infrastructure.

As for housing for poor people, we are simply trying to remove the poor people! We crack down on beggars, but we allow public contractors to violate minimum wage laws on CWG projects! I could go on, but there’s no need; most people on the street understand this, though they may not write about it in English: the CWG are just an excuse to carry on with unsustainable development for the elite of this otherwise great city!

May be this event,if executed flawlessly,could define Indias’ ambition of being an emerging super economy.It would test India’s solidarity,capability of exhibiting superior hospitality skills,efficiency – the factors necessary to being an effective host.May be this would be the turn of events ,into transforming this emerging economy into a preferred destination for foreign investment-obviously,by beating China.

Somehow it seems we have been brain washed into thinking that if something is done for the tax payer or the middle class and not specifically for the marginalised, then we are exploiting and short changing them. I find that line of reasoning difficult to comprehend.