Government as performance ritual

“In India, writes T.S.R. Subramanian, “if you wear a dark suit and tie, you become respectable. You may be the biggest crook, but somehow society takes you to be a gentleman. If you wear khadi, with a Nehru jacket, and suddenly you are transformed and become a demi-god”. “Being a politician in India”, he concludes, “has great pre-emptive advantages”.

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