Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.
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Fawning over Ivanka makes strategic sense for Modi, given that her dad is very susceptible to flattery for himself or his family. India can get a lot of favors from US that way especially given the common anti-muslim sentiments. Enemy of my enemy … etc.
Whether Ivanka is a social pariah in DC is irrelevant. As long as Trump is POTUS, she is means to an end for India.
This is not to say anything she says ought to be taken seriously. She spouts platitudes on which she knows very little about, is hypocritical and inconsistent with her own behavior and actions and has a total blind spot to anything unethical or immoral her dad might do.
Treat her like a Bollywood pretty face actor to get favors from the US, forget any principles or ethical concerns about her as a person.
Awesome comment bro .. exactly .. this is really world politics… She is daughter and adviser to POTUS and she is only means to an end for India’s strategic ends… whats her image in DC is all US internal politics and we are plain outsiders .. work with the power centers and get things done..
Fawning over Ivanka makes strategic sense for Modi, given that her dad is very susceptible to flattery for himself or his family. India can get a lot of favors from US that way especially given the common anti-muslim sentiments. Enemy of my enemy … etc.
Whether Ivanka is a social pariah in DC is irrelevant. As long as Trump is POTUS, she is means to an end for India.
This is not to say anything she says ought to be taken seriously. She spouts platitudes on which she knows very little about, is hypocritical and inconsistent with her own behavior and actions and has a total blind spot to anything unethical or immoral her dad might do.
Treat her like a Bollywood pretty face actor to get favors from the US, forget any principles or ethical concerns about her as a person.
Modi knows how to play this game.
Awesome comment bro .. exactly .. this is really world politics… She is daughter and adviser to POTUS and she is only means to an end for India’s strategic ends… whats her image in DC is all US internal politics and we are plain outsiders .. work with the power centers and get things done..