You're listening to a download from the BBC. This is from our own correspondent.

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of the BBC World Service but here's the addition which goes out on BBC Radio 4

it's introduced by Kate Aide. on the good the bad and the ugly and Indian life.

A tour of the frontline in Mogadishu, once the pearl of the Indian Ocean, now one of the most

violent cities on earth.

There's a snapshot of Dubai before rampant development and

before economic crisis and a turf war in Las Vegas as two mafia museums bid to tell it

their way.

The Indian government, this week, removed from office two senior officials behind the

organizing of the Commonwealth Games last year.

It was, they said to help police carry out an inquiry into alleged corruption.

The claim of dodgy dealings at the Games is just one in a series of scandals facing the country at the moment.

Corruption seems everywhere you look and the government has

pledged urgent action. Tens of billions of pounds are said to be involved and

this in a country where millions of citizens remain trapped in poverty.

Chris Morris, who's just moved to a new BBC posting in Europe, says the stories of corruption

became increasingly commonplace during the three and a half years he was based in Delhi.

As with many things in India, I had a bit of a love-hate relationship with Aruna Assif Ali Marg.

This was the road on which I drove or was driven most days I was in Delhi from home to work and back

All life was there a little bit of everything

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