I think we Indians have bribed the 'most corrupt' list in the world and are now only one of most corrupt nations in the world. It can't be. We are the numero uno in this. How can any other nation be more corrupt than us? Thankfully we are more corrupt than Pakistan. Huh! Our arch rival will really have to fall down abysmally low to be ranked anywhere close.

You think I am kidding? Two words for you: Commonwealth Games. Here's the wikipedia entry to shed some light on the sporting remains of the colonial empire. You could google search 'commonwealth games corruption in india' and wait for the goldmine to be served on your screen. Choose a link. Click it and revel in it. What the links won't tell you is that Indian politicians have actually achieved a great scientific feat. Forget the particle accelerator. We have the black hole. It mysteriously sucks in all the money, taxpayers and otherwise and makes sure it never sees the light of the day. Unless the day is somewhere in the tax havens of the world and one of our politicians is having a day out there.

We took money to build stadiums which were never built. We took money for fake sporting equipment. We charged a thousand times more for things, we dug up the entire city of Delhi in the name of building overhead flyovers and better roads. We cut more than 40,00 trees. Or was it more than a 100,000? Or was it even more? We destroyed Delhi. Our capital. Do come for a visit if you want to travel in a time machine and find out how ugly the Mongol invasions would have been.

You must have obviously heard of the Yamuna? The great river that once flowed through Delhi.

Guess what happened to it? Commonwealth Games!

Here is something I wrote which will explain more: Click and see the poster.

Here is where you will find the collection of all the news articles related to the corruption at Commonwealth Games.

We talked about the Football World Cup and development in South Africa. I think it's time to look at Commonwealth Games and development in India. Even as we speak, two shining cities of India: Mumbai and Delhi are in a terrible mess. Dug up gutters would be an understatment. Anything they tell you about 'watch out for India' is jingoistic and marketing nonsense. You read the reports from the newspapers and see if I am exaggerating.

Postscript: Even as the world discusses and debates the MDGs, in India a bunch of politicans and bureaucrats msut be huddled together and discussing ways on how to extract money in the name of development from the world. This money will be distributed amongst a few people in a country of a billion plus. And India will fall down several notches in the development scale. You don't have to learn a lesson in sarcasm to be able to write that. You just have to drive in one of the 'shining' cities of India.

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