Of ornamental seats

The matter of using enormous ornamental chairs for leaders has been a shameful culture in our country for years now and so, it was with a sense of relief that we saw our prime minister rejecting this unseemly seating arrangement for a more normal chair at par with other signatories at a public event recently. The leaders probably do not ask for this special /preferential treatment. It is more likely the result of over-enthusiastic arrangements made by obsequious sycophants, there being no dearth of them in our society. We only hope that good sense will prevail and we the public will be the spared the agony of watching leaders sitting on grotesquely designed throne-like seats while others around take a lower seating position.
After all, it is not the seat but words and actions that elevate a person to a position of respect.