Bill Shakespeare would perhaps not have written “what’s in a name” if he had seen the jacket Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wore to his joint dinner with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday. “Netanyahu wears a traditional Indian attire also known as the Modi Jacket to welcome the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at dinner. Some call it the Nehru jacket,” wrote NDTV senior executive editor Aditya Raj Kaul on X, setting off trolls and historians alike who insisted that was the other way round: Nehru jacket, called Modi jacket by some. It was called the Nehru jacket in an Archie comic clip (see embedded tweet thread below) from 1969. All my life I’ve known these jackets as Nehru jackets & now I find these ones have been labelled “Modi Jacket”.

Source: The Telegraph February 26, 2026 15:20 UTC