India's preparations for the hosting of forthcoming commonwealth games has been a big disaster. With less than 2 weeks to go, the venues are not yet complete, a bridge to be used for the games has collapsed injuring over 20 people, the ceiling to the main venue has also collapsed. To make matters even worse, the olympic village has been described as filthy and unfit for human habitation. The railway (metro) infrastructure meant for the games will be ready earliest next year well after the games. There are terrorism fears and health issues since it is being said India's sewerage and hygiene standards belong to the stone age. The global media has lambasted India for incompetence with some telling India that despite having nuclear weapons and a space programme, it should stop pretending that it isn't a third world country.

This is a huge contrast with the way the World Cup was professionally organised by SA.

I am just waiting for Sunny Bindra's piece on sunday - since I don't know how he will defend this incompetence - since he is always lecturing Kenya on how to copy from 'advanced' India.

Daily Mail: 24hrs to save Commonwealth games

They have really messed up things this time am not even sure if the games will kick off...

They have even been photographed using child labourers to try and harakisha the work . Enyewe ni kubaya.

Oh Oh BRIC!! - "we have the numbers"

.....i can smell the filth in India right here in Nairobi !! It pains me to see how some wahindi mistreat blacks na huko kwao kumeoza !! No wonder the Asian 'expats' never go back home when their contracts expire.....i

talk of starting from top. the west started by brick and mortar before going lofty/softy ala windows (by the way what the heck is so funny about windows making the gates richest for close to 2 decades). Anyway India with its softy race ought to look back at basics of brick and mortar before going far. Ati pple have been shitting anyhowly at the athletes village! yes, heard it in telly and thought if this is really true then its pure sabotage!

...This is a disaster... No athlete of any repute should allow to live in such deplorable conditions. I thought India was a 'developed developing country'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sp...s/delhi_2010/9025666.stm

Those are terrorist dogs. Well trained and promised v****n bitches in the afterlife.

I suppose the commonwealth organizing committee got the title wrong...it should have been...

SURVIVOR DEHLI

@muganda, true India has so many,often contrasting faces.
It is a nuclear-armed nation yet home to a centuries-old caste system that subjects part of the populace to primitivity.
Some of the world's leading billionaires such as the Ambani brothers appear routinely ad nauseam on FORBES yet the dirt poor of the world live in Calcutta, often cutting their limbs to help them be more competitive when it comes to begging (and it is from their destitution that we got Mother Teresa when she was so moved).

Methinks there was a lot of corruption in Delhi on this one.
Did someone say they actually had 7 years to prepare for the Games...