Dr Aejaz Ahmad Wani, Postdoctoral Fellow, Humanities and Social Sciences, Moturi Satyanarayana Centre of Advanced Study, has authored an article titled The Spectacle of Wealth as Cultural (Re)production in India, published on the South Asia @ LSE, the research blog of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
The unabashed display of wealth by the superrich, powered by social media, is the credo of global affluence nowadays. In this article, Dr Wani argues that ‘wealth porn’ in India operates on a different scale and with a social cadence hitherto unknown to India’s social psyche. Wealth porn is not just a reflection of changing material culture but a latent social process with sensationally dangerous implications, as it normalises inequality, legitimises superrich norms and holds the potential to trigger civil discord.
