CWG: from the collapse would come a better future

I thought and said that the collapsed CWG - Delhi 2010 would be an opportunity to cleanse up the Indian image of a corrupt people. My fervent hope that it would collapse under inefficient management and lead to full-throated cry for redemption from such unscrupulous people as who make the managers - from Prime Minister down to MS Gill and S Kalmadi was dismissed as anti-national, anti-games. I was called a spoilsport but was, save for a very few who agreed with me on the Facebook. However, The Economist comes quite close to it for it sees an opportunity in this games.

In its September 25, 2010 edition, "Better if India takes the flak for the games' shortcomings not as an insult, but as a jolt that can be turned to good use, by recognising three truths edition about the country of which Indians often prefer to ignore". It lists corruption seen everywhere at every tier of the society and the vulnerability to terror, the latter being a facet pointed out to by the Australian Prime Minister as being worrisome. The third - happily - is democracy but which, from my point of view, is not functional but put to good use by the rent-seeking class.

Read on - you'd find the link in the first para.

And tell me if I am wrong.