Mahendra ruffled?

I flicked to the news just in time to hear Mahendra reading the headlines: '...while protests continued... etc.' I was excited that I had managed to spot him at last, but his tone of voice struck me as unneccessarily gleeful for the subject matter.

Yes, Mahendra was back!

His hair was done in his customary '50s style; his jacket had the usual sheen; his tie was a muted pink (well, truth be told, it was fairly bright in tone, but these things are relative); yet it was his shirt that perturbed me most. Faint salmon stripes that (on my old television set) could easily be mistaken for miniature ruffles, or tucks? Whatever they were, the effect was decidedly odd.