I do not know why there is so much fuss about all the corruption. After all it is Common Wealth, so every one is helping themselves to it.
Bachi Karkaria as usual nails it down in her column.
The CPWD with its 160 years of experience has created world class facility. Where in the world will you have stadium with leaking roofs? Where else can you find seepages in brand new constructions?
Of course the roads caved in. It is part of the monsoon charm. The month of Sawan...
Two days back we had a 11 hour power cut. The Government is ensuring that we become acclimatized to the long power cuts because that is the only way they can provide power during the games.
Meantime, I am spending time getting refreshed yet again. The University refuses to believe that having projects and papers are sufficient proof that I am constantly updating myself. Most of the lectures are terrible so we sit in back giggling and making comments. It helps in passing the time.
2 comments:
Wow!! It's great, though not surprising as it is coming from you, to know that you have a blog. Yes, the progress that our government has made in the direction of Common-wealth games is tragic but, I wonder how we managed to conduct Asian games? Were we a less corrupt nation then? Or was it similar to this and we somehow managed to pull through? So, could there be hope now as well?
Oh there was corruption during Asiad Games too. The only difference is the presence of TV news channels. Those days we just had Doordarshan and the Government controlled the news broadcast. So the corruption was never publicized. This time around there are so many TV channels, each vying for the TRP. So the corruption is well-publicized.
Corruption has been always around. I remember reading Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai's story (or was it a novel) which tells of the events immediately after the partition. The protagonist is a freedom fighter who realizes that only those who are willing to subsume their principles can survive in the new regime. So there is nothing new about the corruption. The only difference between then and now is the way we flaunt the ill-gotten wealth. There is no shame now.
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