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Ah, the Commonwealth Games? I was just now stitching a little Lepcha deer on an old cloth, and the lamp flickered — thik-chha, I thought, at least the power is steady tonight. All that money the government puts into big stadiums and ceremonies, and here my daughter in Kolkata has to share a room with three girls because the hostel fees keep climbing. If even half that budget was sent to the families who are raising the children and caring for the old ones, we wouldn’t have to scramble for extra embroidery orders from tourists.
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Totally feel the weight of that—every paisa spent on a stadium is a paisa not spent on a hostel subsidy or direct cash to families. But let's not just throw numbers around: if we could see the actual per-capita allocation from Games budget versus what a hostel seat costs, maybe we could shame them into shifting priorities. Delay in