"His glasses are said to be Bvlgari, and his watch is Movado, two brands at odds with his traditional Indian look but in keeping with his pro-business ideology," it adds.
In another piece in Time, Tunku Varadarajan dilates on how "As Narendra Modi stormed into the consciousness of the world beyond India, analysts everywhere scrambled to interpret him for their readers and viewers."
Modi, he notes, has been likened to Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Ariel Sharon, Shinzo Abe and Deng Xiaoping, Vladimir Putin as also Turkey's Islamist-democrat Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
