The fact that a political leader’s jacket is news is because we let it be so. We pander, yes. Not to the lazy audience, but to the lazy idea of ‘reportage’.
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Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
1. Most Indians have a pretty tough daily lives, so discussing matters that takes their mind off serious stuff is a natural choice.
2. Burberry Jacket news has more shareable / discuss-able [if there is such a word] topic than a depressing rape case; again natural for humans to discuss topics of mutual convenience.
3. Making fun of those more privileged gives sadistic pleasure, again a natural choice.
Same goes in other cultures and countries; why make it sound INDIA specific ?
Melanie Trump’s dresses are more discussed than Trump’s economic policies in print media in US.
In that case India should have discussed the Indo-Us relationship when Modi was wearing a suit in which his name was printed.
Harnidh Kaur should have given this opinion when Pappu was was making idiotic “Suit Boot Sarkar”. It is too late to be taken seriously.
1. Most Indians have a pretty tough daily lives, so discussing matters that takes their mind off serious stuff is a natural choice.
2. Burberry Jacket news has more shareable / discuss-able [if there is such a word] topic than a depressing rape case; again natural for humans to discuss topics of mutual convenience.
3. Making fun of those more privileged gives sadistic pleasure, again a natural choice.
Same goes in other cultures and countries; why make it sound INDIA specific ?
Melanie Trump’s dresses are more discussed than Trump’s economic policies in print media in US.