In ‘Muscular India’, Michiel Baas writes that it took 3 movies and a magazine to popularise a new body ideal among Indian men. And it was very different from the pehlwan body type.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
Middle class no longer will be able to afford body building or even movies for that matter. Exorbitant personal income taxation is the modus operandi of every government and giving out freebies to non-tax paying population in the form of subsidies to buy votes.
Middle class no longer will be able to afford body building or even movies for that matter. Exorbitant personal income taxation is the modus operandi of every government and giving out freebies to non-tax paying population in the form of subsidies to buy votes.