Supershorts They Said It: 'Evidently I must be stupid'

"I would not spend time with silly girls who just want to use me for publicity. I prefer to be alone with such brainless people. Evidently I must be stupid as well, as I keep on finding these girls."
Manchester City's Mario Balotelli hints at why he promises to be tabloid gold during his stay in the Premier League. When asked by police why he had £5000 in his pocket after crashing his car a few weeks back, he said: "Because I'm rich!" Watch this space.

"In a way, the CWG preparations have been a model-scale version of India itself. Tales of success and ambition laid out on a rockbed of mediaeval infrastructure and the sheer inability to create a new one."
An editorial in the Hindustan Times tells it like it is.

"These jokers ... deserve no mercy. Why should the nation be embarrassed for the folly of these individuals?"
Commentator Rajesh Kalra in the Times of India takes a shot at the Commonwealth Games organisers.

"Sure dude! Our low standards make it really OK to have crap in the living room."
Prahlad Nanjappa writing in Mid Day joins the fun, reacting to committee secretary Lalit Bhanot's suggestion that cleanliness complaints were simply down to cultural differences.

"When [committee chairman] Suresh Kalmadi toured the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium and declared that 'everything is 100 per cent ready', was he wearing blinkers against the rubble and stagnant water?"
The Financial Express takes a pop.

"These are the symptoms of a failed state. We make tall claims about growth, but we treat our poor worse than animals. We aspire to be a world power, but we can't even provide drinking water to all our citizens.We claim to be world's biggest democracy, but we 'solve' all our social and political problems with loaded guns in hand."
Shobhan Saxena in the Times of India.