By IANS,
London : “Indians have a right to feel warm about their justified claims that the Commonwealth Games were reasonably well run, amid the country’s bigger social and economic struggles,” a British newspaper said Friday.
Praising Delhi for successfully hosting the Games, the Daily Telegraph wrote: “The stadium did not collapse, athletes did not miss their competition because of traffic jams and the feared outbreak of dengue fever was largely controlled.”
“This was New Delhi with its best,” it said.
Commenting on corruption in the Games, the daily said: “India suffered a shattered international reputation in its ability to meet deadlines, to keep to cost, to construct rigorous buildings, to get rid of the old corrupt ways and to be a global technology giant.”
But within India, those organisational complaints are dismissed as an anti-Indian conspiracy by the West, the paper said.