Hurt Sentiments II

Another dim American TV journalist, Megyn Kelly, was on the receiving end of the collective howl of indignation because she did not know that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was a social media superstar. He was savvy enough to tell her he’d seen a picture she’d posted to which she responded: “Are you on Twitter?” From the outrage, you’d never have guessed that big countries, India included, can be insular, or that celebrities, Indians included, can be vacuous and self-obsessed. Isn’t it more important to ask why world leaders will so readily take part in a celebrity charade?