How have i managed to evade this dengue epidemic then ?
its time we all had some perspective here! 2000 cases of dengue out of a population of 15 million.
Commonwealth games accommodations in Dehli - Unfit for humans
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How have i managed to evade this dengue epidemic then ?
its time we all had some perspective here! 2000 cases of dengue out of a population of 15 million.
How have i managed to evade this dengue epidemic then ?
its time we all had some perspective here! 2000 cases of dengue out of a population of 15 million.
It is way over 2000 to be fair. That is just the MCD offical number. According to private hospital it is close to 10,000.
But still you are right to an extent.
Ok lets double it to 20,000 to be on the safe side!
That still means only 0.13% of the population has dengue...but the media would have you believe that half the city is infected.
That still means only 0.13% of the population has dengue...but the media would have you believe that half the city is infected.
They've been talking to the athletes as they fly out..and almost to a man, they are all saying the same thing
"we are happy enough, and sure that once we get there and it starts, everything will be fine. It certainly won't be as bad as its being made out to look at the moment"
Sky reporters are not happy...hehe, they keep goading them to talk about fear, apprehension etc etc
"we are happy enough, and sure that once we get there and it starts, everything will be fine. It certainly won't be as bad as its being made out to look at the moment"
Sky reporters are not happy...hehe, they keep goading them to talk about fear, apprehension etc etc
Expectations will be so low, the Games surely cannot fail now.
At the 100m final, there will be a board saying "Go Slow, Men at Work"
This Commonwealth Games debacle wounds the pride of India - Telegraph
The fiasco that has surrounded the Commonwealth Games in Delhi, with ceilings and bridges collapsing, athletes threatening to stay away and child labourers desperately struggling to install spectator seating, has not been pretty. Nor have the shots of the interior of the athletes' village, with wires from open junction boxes dangling next to mosquito-ridden pools of stagnant water, and lavatories that have been well-used but not plumbed in.
Games officials and foreign athletes are furious – but so are the Indians themselves. The Times of India carried a poll in which 97 per cent of respondents said that they felt their country's reputation had been damaged by the shambles. None the less, as an embarrassed government makes frantic efforts to complete the work, the building-site jokes are already making the rounds. One wag advised: "When walking near venues or watching the Games in the stadium, kindly wear a helmet at all times." More worryingly, another Times of India reader claimed that a cousin had been working as a civil engineer on one of the Games' buildings. When they had completed the first floor, the inspecting official reportedly requested a Mercedes in exchange for signing it off: the contractor allegedly agreed, but subtracted the cost of the car from the budget for the remaining floors.
I am married to a man of Indian origin, whose parents came to Britain from New Delhi, and have visited the city a number of times. Despite the marvels that it has to offer any traveller, the lack of readiness for the Games did not come as a total surprise. For a start, Indian construction workers have an unusually carefree attitude to electricity: as a first-time visitor, I was mightily struck by the great, snaking tangle of power cables that hangs in swags across streets in the Old Town. What was even more astonishing was that it appeared to work.
On a larger scale, and by similarly unorthodox methods, India works, too: as a country, it is a functioning mixture of the maddening and the miraculous. But it just doesn't work to a deadline. And health and safety, almost a religion in the West, often appears of negligible importance.
My husband and I were driven, by a local driver of merciful competence, up the narrow, winding roads of the Kullu Valley in Himachel Pradesh. The steep drops at the roadside were dotted with the crumpled wrecks of trucks that had plunged off the edge. We turned a corner, and there, on a hairpin bend atop a 100ft drop, were two smiling teenage boys enjoying a leisurely game of cricket.
When we stayed the night in a little guesthouse, the temperature dropped to freezing. We asked for a heater, which came with two unprotected, dangling wires, which the owner cheerily rammed directly into holes in the wall. After the crackling that ensued, I decided I'd rather freeze to death than burn.
The Indian people have enormous reserves of stamina, resilience, intelligence and drive, qualities which are setting their nation on the route to becoming an economic superpower. What they do not have is a government which makes rules consistently and enforces them swiftly and fairly. The result is that the rich – who have the money to pay handsome bribes and to employ the best lawyers – prosper further, while the poor often remain unprotected.
Campaigning journalism – as practised by Tehelka, a wonderful weekly magazine – is increasingly holding politicians, officials and police chiefs to account. Sadly, while the parlous state of the privies in the athletes' village makes international headlines, the fate of the 100 workers killed since 1998 in the construction of the New Delhi Metro does not.
A spotlight has been turned on the worst of India in the run-up to these Games: the chaos, the child labour, the corruption. But the athletes who take part will also discover the best of it: new friends will be made, ingenious solutions proffered, fresh accommodation found. As I said, India always works. But its government should take a sharp lesson from the anger of its own people, who yearn to take an unqualified pride in their nation: an emergent superpower should work a hell of a lot better than this.
The fiasco that has surrounded the Commonwealth Games in Delhi, with ceilings and bridges collapsing, athletes threatening to stay away and child labourers desperately struggling to install spectator seating, has not been pretty. Nor have the shots of the interior of the athletes' village, with wires from open junction boxes dangling next to mosquito-ridden pools of stagnant water, and lavatories that have been well-used but not plumbed in.
Games officials and foreign athletes are furious – but so are the Indians themselves. The Times of India carried a poll in which 97 per cent of respondents said that they felt their country's reputation had been damaged by the shambles. None the less, as an embarrassed government makes frantic efforts to complete the work, the building-site jokes are already making the rounds. One wag advised: "When walking near venues or watching the Games in the stadium, kindly wear a helmet at all times." More worryingly, another Times of India reader claimed that a cousin had been working as a civil engineer on one of the Games' buildings. When they had completed the first floor, the inspecting official reportedly requested a Mercedes in exchange for signing it off: the contractor allegedly agreed, but subtracted the cost of the car from the budget for the remaining floors.
I am married to a man of Indian origin, whose parents came to Britain from New Delhi, and have visited the city a number of times. Despite the marvels that it has to offer any traveller, the lack of readiness for the Games did not come as a total surprise. For a start, Indian construction workers have an unusually carefree attitude to electricity: as a first-time visitor, I was mightily struck by the great, snaking tangle of power cables that hangs in swags across streets in the Old Town. What was even more astonishing was that it appeared to work.
On a larger scale, and by similarly unorthodox methods, India works, too: as a country, it is a functioning mixture of the maddening and the miraculous. But it just doesn't work to a deadline. And health and safety, almost a religion in the West, often appears of negligible importance.
My husband and I were driven, by a local driver of merciful competence, up the narrow, winding roads of the Kullu Valley in Himachel Pradesh. The steep drops at the roadside were dotted with the crumpled wrecks of trucks that had plunged off the edge. We turned a corner, and there, on a hairpin bend atop a 100ft drop, were two smiling teenage boys enjoying a leisurely game of cricket.
When we stayed the night in a little guesthouse, the temperature dropped to freezing. We asked for a heater, which came with two unprotected, dangling wires, which the owner cheerily rammed directly into holes in the wall. After the crackling that ensued, I decided I'd rather freeze to death than burn.
The Indian people have enormous reserves of stamina, resilience, intelligence and drive, qualities which are setting their nation on the route to becoming an economic superpower. What they do not have is a government which makes rules consistently and enforces them swiftly and fairly. The result is that the rich – who have the money to pay handsome bribes and to employ the best lawyers – prosper further, while the poor often remain unprotected.
Campaigning journalism – as practised by Tehelka, a wonderful weekly magazine – is increasingly holding politicians, officials and police chiefs to account. Sadly, while the parlous state of the privies in the athletes' village makes international headlines, the fate of the 100 workers killed since 1998 in the construction of the New Delhi Metro does not.
A spotlight has been turned on the worst of India in the run-up to these Games: the chaos, the child labour, the corruption. But the athletes who take part will also discover the best of it: new friends will be made, ingenious solutions proffered, fresh accommodation found. As I said, India always works. But its government should take a sharp lesson from the anger of its own people, who yearn to take an unqualified pride in their nation: an emergent superpower should work a hell of a lot better than this.
Isn't this the same world over ?
Where are those pictures of the rooms from?
games village...for athletes
Its alright take a photo of one Villa. What about the rest of them? I don't for a second believe that 90% of the village looks exactly like that.
. You're quite wrong actually. Its 10% that looks anything remote to what's on tv. The Indian media has picked up this recent habit of over blowing every single thing. I'm fairly certain you'll get rooms which are very habitable.2400 rooms out of 4000 are ready. They reckon another 1000 or so will be done as well.
The quality thing has been overblown. The main problem is the delay, which resulted in some of the shoddy work. The Village should have been ready at least 3 months before.
The quality thing has been overblown. The main problem is the delay, which resulted in some of the shoddy work. The Village should have been ready at least 3 months before.
Exactly, the athletes will be fine, I do however feel sorry for the people who will be forking out a ton of money for these 'luxurious' apartments once the Games are over
I am sure that 90% of the facilities are ready but all should have been done & dusted months ago if not a year ago with some regional sporting even done as a test bed.
I wonder how the F1 track is coming along? Any lessons learnt? I think the stain of the CWG2010 would have killed off any foreign tourism connected to F1 already.
I wonder how the F1 track is coming along? Any lessons learnt? I think the stain of the CWG2010 would have killed off any foreign tourism connected to F1 already.
So after all the hoo-ha it is all kicking off on Sunday ...
BBC - David Bond: What is the point of the Commonwealth Games?
BBC - David Bond: What is the point of the Commonwealth Games?
The Bridge that fell down has been created by the Indian Military in 5 days, so much negative publicity surrounding this but I think that it's gonna be a success.
The photographs kind of remind me of the ones you get when looking for hotel rooms on the internet. Somehow you always knew the room you'll actually get will never look as good.
^ The pics are taken by the athletes themselves and posted on facebook
The thing starts today isn't it? They ready yet?
Haven't heard of anything falling yet...
Opening ceremony live on TV right now - all looks good to me !
it would be better if we have a different thread to follow its proceedings.
Karan, so you been at the opening ceremony?
Karan, so you been at the opening ceremony?
The opening ceremony was fantastic!
Commonwealth Games 2010: Delhi delivers opening ceremony | Mail Online
If The Daily Mail are singing praises of something non-white, you can imagine how good it was. I caught a glimpse of it in the City Center, it looked quite good.
Commonwealth Games 2010: Delhi delivers opening ceremony | Mail Online
If The Daily Mail are singing praises of something non-white, you can imagine how good it was. I caught a glimpse of it in the City Center, it looked quite good.
All the reviews I've read so far from the athletes have the words - the best, amazing, awesome. I don't follow these games or the world politics, so how much of the debacle was true?
It wasn't politics, things were looking slightly dodgy at one stage. But people in the west sometimes don't realize is, in the 3rd world, it's not actually all chaos, it's a sort of controlled chaos.
Everyone knew it would in the end come together, but the negative stuff sort of built up a head of steam, and everyone got a little bit carried away. But when it came to the crunch, thousands of workers were engaged to do emergency cleaning, tidying, touch ups, and the Army came in for some repairs, and...Voila!
Loved the head of the organizing committee getting booed
That was a surprisingly good opening ceremony, really enjoyed it to be honest. Good touch by the fans to cheer loudly for the Pakistani contingent. Hope the games are successful from hereon in.
20 million pounds for the opening ceremony, plus dude this is the subcontinent we are talking about...who better to put on a show?
well done India on a fantastically enjoyable opening to the CWG. Hopefully all the stresses of the past 14 days can be temporarily forgotten and that a great and memorable games are held.
It is only the politicians and army in pakistans case that keep the countries at edge for whatever gains. Pakistan got the biggest cheer after India.
Infact pakistan was one of the countries supporting India when the media was having a field day.
The opening ceremony was well done and is a visual spectacle for those present at the stadium.
i loved it
i loved it
All the negatives were over blown as always by the media.
My friend in Delhi visited most parts of the Village and Stadia,He couldn't believe this was all in India.
My friend in Delhi visited most parts of the Village and Stadia,He couldn't believe this was all in India.
Great ceremony - perhaps it is a time for a new thread since India got their shit sorted in the end!
'India has arrived': spectacular ceremony opens Commonwealth Games | Sport | The Guardian
'India has arrived': spectacular ceremony opens Commonwealth Games | Sport | The Guardian
This was always going to happen. I don't know why people are so surprised.