--- description: The Indian government's Press Information Bureau was left red-faced by the image, which it quickly deleted from its Twitter feed. title: Photoshopped Image of Indian Prime Minister Causes Scorn image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Officially Doctored Image of Prime Minister Modi at Chennai Floods Causes Scorn In India ## Video: Next Gen Leaders: Alok Shetty, India [Watch (HLS stream): Next Gen Leaders: Alok Shetty, India](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/UTLKNR4m.m3u8) (1:36)  _Published 2014-09-11. Next Gen: India_ by [Rishi Iyengar](/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 4, 2015 6:50 AM CUT by [Rishi Iyengar](/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 4, 2015 6:50 AM CUT The collective sadness at the devastation due to [widespread flooding](http://time.com/4136066/chennai-floods-india-rains-modi/ "undefined") in southern India this week briefly gave way to outrage — and mockery — as the Indian government’s Press Information Bureau (PIB) tweeted an embarrassingly doctored photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi surveying the submerged city of Chennai from the air. The Photoshopped tweet, superimposing a clearer porthole view on an existing image that Modi himself had tweeted, was quickly deleted from the PIB feed — but not before the screenshot-enabled jokesters of Twitter got a hold of it. > [](https://twitter.com/narendramodi/status/672395064862085121) > [](https://twitter.com/Bobin%5FJames/status/672448209013350400) > [](https://twitter.com/brownbrumby/status/672421223184207873) > [](https://twitter.com/bwoyblunder/status/672424388113784832) Most users, however, slammed the government agency for what they saw as an unnecessary edit given that Modi did actually conduct the aerial survey. > [](https://twitter.com/Joydas/status/672496670416990208) > [](https://twitter.com/prashanth2541/status/672631454111694848) > [](https://twitter.com/tanvi%5Fmadan/status/672429060757299200) > [](https://twitter.com/espnjohnsy/status/672489484601159680) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4136096/modi-chennai-floods-pib-photoshop-twitter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4136096/modi-chennai-floods-pib-photoshop-twitter/"},"headline":"Officially Doctored Image of Prime Minister Modi at Chennai Floods Causes Scorn In India","datePublished":"2015-12-04T06:50:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:27:21.310Z","description":"The Indian government's Press Information Bureau was left red-faced","url":"https://time.com/4136096/modi-chennai-floods-pib-photoshop-twitter/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Social Media","India","twitter","Narendra Modi","Floods","Photoshop"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rishi Iyengar","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4136096/modi-chennai-floods-pib-photoshop-twitter/","name":"Officially Doctored Image of Prime Minister Modi at Chennai Floods Causes Scorn In India"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Next Gen Leaders: Alok Shetty, India","description":"Next Gen: India","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/UTLKNR4m/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-09-11T23:47:24.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/UTLKNR4m.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4136096/modi-chennai-floods-pib-photoshop-twitter/","duration":"PT1M36S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4136096/modi-chennai-floods-pib-photoshop-twitter/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```