The Commonwealth Games are over and India did well. For most of India, this is reason enough to forget the organizational problems leading into the Games. There are some people, however, who still feel the disgrace of our initial unpreparedness keenly.
I don’t fall into either of these categories. I know that the Games organizers will use the initial problems as an opportunity to make more money in the future than they ever did on fake contracts, difficult as that may seem. Here’s a few ways how:
Which are the top two places you'll find disintegrating bridges, bombs in suitcases and pissed off people? The Games Village and a Vin Diesel/ Mithun Chakraborty movie. So, after the Games start and end, you hire out the Village as an action movie set, complete with randomly falling bridges for that spark of unpredictability in the stuntman's life. And this would be Delhi's way to finally give back to Bollywood. After all, Delhi wouldn't be the awe inspiring model-to-the-world capital it is now, if it wasn't through years of dogged indoctrination by Kanti Shah et al., engraving police corruption, dirty politics and rampant rape as ideal human behaviour into the public psyche.
Rural development improver
Everybody complains about rural development, that only the cities are growing and not the villages. Here's a great opportunity: classify the Games Village as an actual village, and show how it beats the other villages on literacy (by almost 2 percent) and prosperity (by a huge amount, due to common wealth distribution). India's rural development indices could increase by more than 0.00001%!
Public toilet
Two facts: 1. Delhi needs more public toilets. 2. All foreign contingents have complained of the hygiene in the quarters in/around the Games Village. Cleaning up the village and building hundreds of toilets will take a huge investment, so huge that the govt cannot afford it. Only perhaps successful innovative entrepreneurs like the Ambanis and Kalmadis can.
The solution: convert it into a public toilet. By now, everyone in India wants to pee on the CWG. All the ingredients are there - prime location, low cleanliness, great hype. All we need is a writing on every wall saying - Yehaan peshaab karna mana hai.
Humility improver
By now, everyone knows that India is going to become a global superpower soon and all eyes are on us to take the lead in every sphere of world affairs. It is very likely that when that happens, the PM of that time will become proud and arrogant and think of himself/herself as God (or, as the Americans put it, the most powerful man in the world). Hence the humility improver - if we keep the Games Village standing forever (an engineering miracle), future PMs can drive past it everyday and become humble, reflecting on the retarded and blundering beginnings of this great nation.
Stand up comedy venue
India has many aspiring stand up comedians, but many of them have neither a full set of ideas or a venue. Solve both by making the Games Village a stand up comedy venue. Comedians can tell jokes about CWG 2010 for 2 hours, and the crowd will still not be sated. One precaution to be taken: the venue is not very architecturally sound; be careful lest the evening be converted into more of a fall down comedy.
India uniter
India is divided in every possible way except two: everyone accepts the divinity of Sachin and everyone accepts the divine suckiness of our organizational skills. Since in general, a large group of people will have more fun criticizing (or burning, lynching and destroying) than praising, lets exploit the second to unite every person in India (except me, since this post is on the good in the CWG).
This is the Man, and you've just seen the world through my eyes.