Word's Worth: oof yeh cwg!!! Delhi badnaam huyee darling tere liye!!

Some one just sent me an email which reads like this:
teacher: what does your dad do?
kid: he is a stripper in a gay bar.

after class

teacher: is that true about your dad?
kid: no, actually he works for the CWG with suresh kalmadi but i was too embarrassed to say that...
From financial bungling to bad organisation to the possibility of construction work not being complete on time -- it's all happening around the Delhi CWG. With days to go before the event begins, it's anyone's guess how the Games will unfold. Whatever happens now, one thing for sure if in past 5 years our CWG organisers couldn't do the proper arrangement, you cannot expect a miracle to rectify mistakes in whatever time is left. Out problem is , we are over tolerant people and let such things happen day in day out.

Now with the PM and the Delhi CM pitching in to do the damage control, all we need to do is go back to our routes and take the blanket of hospitality, love and appreciation for our visitors and convince them that they didn't make a wrong choice coming to India. Am sure some infra related things cannot just be fixed . And lets accept that and do whatever possible to ensure that they don’t create inconvenience to the athletes.

Give a facelift to the ‘filthy’ areas and clean the pavements if we can't fix them and make sure that the overall experience and security of visitors is as required if not exceeding expectation. Security in this part of the globe is the prime concern . so the margin of error has to be zero.

For the time being let the OC alone ( sideline them asap and afap). We will have a lifetime later on to catch the defaulters of the fiasco to punish them ( we must) for whatever they did or did not do. Right now save the image and country. Many of us are already hanging our heads in shame.

I read it somewhere the other day- “After bagging the CW games, responsibility of organizing the event should have been given to Private sector. BCCI organizes huge events like IPL and world cup without any fuss because there is no Government intervention. IPL is a huge tournament, is organized in many cities, there are large number of matches, is played over 45 day period, but still is organized beautifully and top of that makes profit. This shows the difference in organizing capabilities.” Well, it makes lot of sense to me...........