A round-up of Tim Cook’s India trip

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Apple CEO Tim Cook reached India to inaugurate the company’s first two retail stores in the country – one in Mumbai and the other in Delhi.

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Inaugurating the stores wasn’t all he did in India – Tim Cook also relished vada pav with Madhuri Dixit

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He met some of India’s star badminton players while in Mumbai and learned how the Apple Watch is helping athletes

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Tim Cook inaugurated Apple BKC store in Mumbai on April 18

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He also visited an Akanksha Foundation school supported by Apple and interacted with students

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At the Indian School of Design & Innovation, Cook learned more about how technology is helping designers

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Next on his itinerary – Delhi, where the CEO of Apple first visited the Lodhi Art District

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Then the National Crafts Museum & Hastkala Academy

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And then he met PM Narendra Modi. “We share your vision of the positive impact technology can make on India’s future,” wrote Tim Cook

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Finally, on April 20, Tim Cook inaugurated the Apple Saket store

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