In the run up to the global event, New Delhi has been glossed over and shut down, while the images of gold and silver utensils have found their way on social media.
Soft power is built not by showcasing cuisines and folksy traditions, but by showing how a people wants to come across as. Seeing mainstream American movies will give you the impression that that s how Americans and America are. Britain, too, still punches well above its weight culturally because of the people depicted in movies/shows with Brit actors and/or characters. Reality needn t match - in fact, shouldn t match - in toto.
Many fronts that target India s image with fake data and fabricated stories, exploiting India s fault-lines, are found to be linked with billionaire George Soros, DisInfo Lab said in a report.
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