In the Washington Post, respected Indian journalist Barkha Dutt wrote about Justin’s romp through India, noting that the Canadian prime minister came across as “silly, diminished and desperate” on his visit.

Flighty and facetious. His orchestrated dance moves and multiple costume changes in heavily embroidered kurtas and sherwanis make him look more like an actor on a movie set or a guest at a wedding than a politician who is here to talk business. Suddenly, all that charisma and cuteness seem constructed, manufactured and, above all, not serious.

On watching Justin “sashaying out, doing the Bhangra dance,” she adds: “You could feel the collective groan of Indians: Please. Stop. Enough Already.” Or, as one official in the Indian government put it: “He seems . . . much more convinced of his own rock-star status than we ever were.”

The lesson in all of this? Turns out, the rest of the world may not be quite as enamoured with ol’ Justin as we seem to think they are.