NEW DELHI: When Prime Minister Narendra Modi went to Italy for the G-7 summit, it was not the diplomatic meetings in India that were in the headlines, but relations with his Italian counterpart.
“Hello from the Melody team,” Prime Minister Georgia Meloni said, smiling while standing next to her right-wing leader Modi, in a video posted on social media on Saturday.
The two enjoy a close public friendship, which was seen last year during the G-20 summit in India and the COP-28 climate talks in Dubai.
Modi reposted Meloni’s video on Instagram and praised relations between Rome and New Delhi in Italian. He was at the Borgo Egnazia resort on the sidelines of the G-7 summit. The G-7 summit includes Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States.
He wrote that he held meetings with Meloni “to strengthen ties in commerce, energy, defense, telecommunications and other areas.” But in India, the short Modi-Melonie video caught attention on Sunday – leading to a flood of memes and videos on social media dedicated to the imaginary relationship between the two leaders.
In that fictional world, politicians have become the central characters of an Internet love story, filled with betrayals and heartache as well as moments of happiness.
The AI-generated video, viewed by millions of people, shows Modi singing a love song every time Meloni is seen with a political leader other than him. But the newspapers also gave deep criticism and quickly cooled the atmosphere.
A Times of India editorial wrote, “Like other women in high positions, Meloni is also being viewed through a male lens – hot or not?” “No matter how influential she is, no matter what she knows or has become, a woman is always likely to face such derogatory framing,” it added. “As Meloni’s sermon shows, old-fashioned misogyny dies hard.”
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