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Article: The 2010 Commonwealth Games Are a 2009 Mess for New Delhi
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- September 15, 2009
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Nearly every road is dug up. Giant cranes and hazy dust cloud the
skyline. India's capital is in the midst of a breathless
construction overdrive in the run-up to an international sporting
event scheduled for next year.
New Delhi hopes the Commonwealth Games, in which 71 former
British colonies compete, will bring the global limelight that the
Olympics brought to Beijing last year. Leaders see it as central to
India's growing ambition to transform its cramped capital of 14
million people into a 21st-century supercity that can hope to host
future Grand Prix auto races and Olympiads.
But the makeover dream is fast turning into a nightmare.
With the October 2010 deadline looming, a government ...