by Jyoti Thottam
Let the Games Not Begin. New Delhi’s residents are protesting, not celebrating, their city’s Commonwealth Games.
The Commonwealth Games are to open on October 3. A politician, Suresh Kalmadi says on September 15 that everything for the opening of the game is ready with minor finishing, but actually there are a lot of problems in construction, security, and diseases. Indian politicians also plead the New Delhi’s residents to put on a good show for the coming athletes.
But the residents are against Kalmadi’s wizard-of-Oz way of speaking and the pleading. The residents do not need the shallow words like Kalmadi. Instead, they will surely show their wit, compassion, and courage in the end as in Wizard of Oz. (102 words)
(The words, Wizard of Oz, are well reflected in the last paragraph: ...long and treacherous yellow brick road. ... find reserves of wit, compassion and courage. Who needs the Wixard?)
