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From - http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2010-October/199714.html >By Madhu Purnima Kishwar >The corruption and mismanagement of CWG has only recently and temporarily >become a cause célèbre with the media and section of the urban elite because >they have developed delusions of grandeur and learnt to mistake their own >growing prosperity, wealth and clout with "national progress." They feel let >down > >because they feel their new found and fragile "national pride" is being given >a >massive drubbing in front of foreigners, the only ones they wish to impress, >but > >don't really know how to. Frame that. Madhu-ji correctly identifies the conceit of middle class India, the delusions of superpowerdom when they should be building toilets for its people. Her piece is also relevant to Goa. In the space of less than one generation, Goa has been taken down to the level of the rest of India - slummified, dirtied, polluted and overpopulated. Nice work, Goans. And thank you, India. r
