Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is famous among his compatriots for leading a rather modest lifestyle. This statesman demonstratively denies himself and his family the luxury, or at least successfully creates such an image for his family.
So, the other day, the 96-year-old mother of the politician Hiraben went to the ATM to withdraw money. Many local media outlets wrote about this event. The event, of course, is not the most interesting from the point of view of newspaper chronicles, but the journalists considered it necessary to cover it, since it demonstrates the democracy of the current ruling elite of India.
However, attentive users of the Indian segment of the World Wide Web unexpectedly noticed that this event could be much more remarkable and even exciting than the journalists themselves assumed. The fact is that in one of the pictures of an elderly woman getting into a rickshaw … a ghostly hand appeared. To be more precise, we are talking about a mysterious hand, curved at an unusual angle and wrapping around the shoulder of Hiraben Modi.
Was the Indian Prime Minister's mother photographed with a real ghost? Many devout Indians felt that this could very well be. Other regulars on the Web said the image had been edited. They say that for some reason (for example, damage to today's photo), the journalists used the old image of the politician's mother and pasted it into a photo with a motor rickshaw, but inadvertently did not retouch the hand of the person who supported Hiraben.
Finally, there were commentators who decided that the shot was genuine, but the woman was supported by the hand of someone from the nearby people, that is, there is nothing supernatural here. And the fact that this person is not completely visible is an ordinary illusion, which in our world cannot be counted due to the imperfection of our organs of perception of the surrounding space and time, which is also a sin of all our technology, including photo and video equipment.
Some users, by the way, found another ominous detail in the photo. According to them, the mouth of a man in a light shirt, standing at a distance, is opened in an unnatural way, as if in a silent scream. However, such an effect could have been created by low image quality …