The Spectator

Blame Games

India has given a good impression of a country that views the Commonwealth as an embarrassment.

issue 25 September 2010

India has given a good impression of a country that views the Commonwealth as an embarrassment.

It should be an honour to host the commonwealth Games. We hoped that India would use the event to show the world that it is not just an emerging superpower with nuclear weapons and a space programme, but a country with a sense of pride — as China did with the Beijing Olympics. Instead, India has given a good impression of a country that views the Commonwealth as an embarrassment. Advance parties from England, Scotland, Australia and Canada arrived to find squalid and even incomplete accommodation. There were reports of walls bubbling with mould and floors covered with pools of stagnant water.

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