An Indian experience will make us forever richer - Sydney Morning Herald

As the reasons pile up for why Australian athletes shouldn't go to India for the Commonwealth Games – dengue fever, the risk of terrorist attack, dodgy infrastructure and unclean sanitation – it gets harder and harder to remember why they should go.

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Because India is India and unlike anywhere else on earth and, having been, their lives will be forever richer for the experience. If ever there was an antidote to the boredom of life on the road – the whistle-stop tours from pool to airport to hotel – where the overwhelming memory is of global convergence, it is India. As travel publisher Tony Wheeler commented recently, it's a country that hasn't been able to step cleanly into the present: instead it has one foot in an unchanged past and the other already in the future.

An Indian experience will make us forever richer - Sydney Morning Herald