Durga Sahu is shining tiles outside the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. The swanky Delhi venue is the location for the opening and closing ceremonies of the two-week Commonwealth Games that began this week, an event that was supposed to see India stepping onto the international stage the same way Beijing did when it hosted the 2008 Olympics.
Curious to see how one of the thousands of workers involved in preparing the venues feels about the event, I ask one worker I see while I'm on a guided media visit what he thinks about an extravaganza the government has dubbed the ‘pride of the nation.’
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