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Statesman (India)

| November 30, 2009 | COPYRIGHT 1999 The Statesman (English). (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Even if ego-deflating

WISE men learn from the mistakes of others, fools from their own. It would be pointless to speculate which category the minister for sport would figure in, but it would be reasonable to assume that the struggle to get things in place for the Commonwealth Games heavily influenced MS Gill telling the Rajya Sabhathat bidding for the 2020 Olympics was inadvisable. For, even as he wondered if India could emulate China in laying out $50 billion for the Beijing Games ~ look at the poverty in this country, look at our infrastructure, are you willing to spend that amount? ~ he actually reopened the debate on whether the Rs4,100 crore government was spending on CWG …

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