[Barrie Yates]

Originally Posted by MargaretR

I found this gallery of 20 pics

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The ones showing women transporting bowls of cement on their heads speak volumes.

India is still a '3rd world' country and should never have been given the games.
Some news sites imply that corrupt bribes were given to secure India being chosen.
They now reap the shame of failure.

Those areas of flooding around the competitors housing blocks will be rife with mosquitoes which spread denge fever.

Carrying building materials on their heads is normal throughout the sub-continent. I did note that they had steel scaffolding - in Pakistan 2 years ago they wanted to use bamboo scaffolding when we were constructing a 25m diameter radome - I said NO, and yes I did shout.