The Indian tax payers have ended up paying through their nose and only attracted global shame by hosting of the Common Wealth Games. The citizens of this country do not understand that motives for hosting such international events are far from show-casing the nation's capabilities but are meant to benefit corporates, contractors and politicians.The same holds through for other development like dams, national highways, and so on. Former Union Sports Minister, Mani Shankar Aiyar was ridiculed by the media for opposing such extravagant spending on a CWG and had urged the government to instead ultilise that money for building sports infrastructure in the villages. Indians now need to take a holiday from hosting international events until they put their governance systems in place. With maggots, rats, cockroaches and scorpions crawling all around the place in government, this country can only hope for more international embarassment. A thorough criminal investigation into the entire expenditures on the CWG is what is required after the conclusion of the games. The guilty must be stringently penalised, as inviting such ridicule is as good as betrayal of the nation.
-Soter
