Deshpande is a homie

In the “The Confident Graze” by Shekhar Deshpande the article talks about the third largest subscription based material in the United States after TV Guide and Reader's Digest. The article brings in to question the way photographs are taken for the magazine. Deshpade says "While we admire the accomplishments of its photographers to bring us the rest of the world, we gorget that the photographs and the contexts in which they are placed represent a very conscious effort by the editors to make the world a happy place and a happly place especially for the Western eye"(par. 9). Deshpande is saying that National Geographic is showing elements of other cultures that are some what photoshoped and made "nice," to the Western world. Deshpande talks about how National Geographic is mainly a photographic magazine rather than one portraying all of the despair and shortcomings of the people and places outside of our country. The article also says " The poverty in India, long a favorite and often the only reference for Western audiences is transformed in the pages of the magazine into and observable commodity, polished with gleaming light and perfection of the position of the objects, their eternal [r]eadiness at being photographed"(par. 11). The Western world is looking for an admirable more attractive world looking into the pages of the National Geographic.