India's strongman PM: Modi to appear on Bear Grylls' Man vs Wild
by Vidhi Doshi and Rebecca Ratcliffe in New Delhi from on (#4M5ED)
Narendra Modi claims the programme will showcase India's 'beautiful mountains and mighty rivers', in the latest in a string of choreographed media appearances
India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, will appear with Bear Grylls in a wilderness survival television programme, the latest in a series of Putin-style media appearances in which the 68-year-old leader projects himself as a man of action and a champion of the environment.
A trailer for the programme, Man vs Wild, which will air in India on 12 August, shows the two men cutting through forests, sniffing animal dung and floating down a river on a makeshift raft. In one scene, Modi holds an improvised spear and tells Grylls: "I'll hold this for you."
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