Corruption Wealth Games

How to make cool big bucks? Organize an event -Bigger the event, better the moolah. When dragon could wow the world with an amazing Olympic show, elephant promised a super show but seems like elephant is on a slippery track and may well end up as an international laughing-stock. Last month if I had said this people could have called me pessimistic but now there are numbers on my side.

We all love super heroes. The Organizing committee of Common Wealth Games has discovered a wonder boy of Indian origin.

Want toilets to be installed?

Call Ashish Patel.

TV screens?

Ashish Patel.

Costume designing?

Ashish Patel.

Need Taxi?

Ashish Patel.

Just shell him 2,47,000 Pounds and rest keep coming in installments. What else to do with the tax payer’s money? One Indians money should go into another Indian’s pocket. Its a vicious cycle to keep the Indian economic machinery well oiled.

Statutory warning: If you are highly patriotic, obedient tax-paying citizen of India, DO NOT READ FURTHER.

• Hire charges for treadmills: Rs. 9.75 Lakhs. (Price of one of the world’s best treadmills retailing in London’s luxury store Harrods: Rs. 7 Lakhs.)
• Rental for chair: Rs. 8,378 per unit.
• Cross trainers: Rs. 8.8 Lakhs.
• Hire charge for 100 litre refrigerator: Rs.42, 202.
• A/C hire charges: Rs. 4 lakhs
• Umbrellas: Rs.6000 per piece.

And here comes the mother of all bills.

• Toilet tissue: Rs 4,138 (which should have actually costed only Rs 35) isn’t it really Holy Shit!!!

These are just a small slice of the bigger pie of corruption wealth.

India currently stands at a dubious rank of 84 in the International corruption perception index and come October, Kalmadi and co are doing their best to swing the perceptions further into the pits.

CWG logo:

Common Wealth Games logo

After corruption charges, it could well be :

Corruption Wealth Games

On a larger note, I don’t understand the need for Commonwealth nations at all and specifically India to be part of it. It might do well for those countries that still consider Queen Elizabeth as the reigning queen. World is fast changing and its time to shed the baggage of past and move ahead. Why would we need queen as the head of the commonwealth and we be part of it?! We had done away with our own kings and queens and so why still honour a videsi queen who once upon a time ruled us?