"Although Modi has a carefully cultivated Hindu nationalist image, it doesn't mean he isn't a fan of European designers," the Post says.
"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.
Meanwhile, at the State Department spokesperson Marie Harf again recalled that Obama and Secretary of State John "Kerry have both said, we look forward to welcoming the prime minister to Washington."
But she had "nothing to announce on dates. I know there are a lot of reports out there about dates, but we don't have dates yet."
