Published by: Priyanka Deshpande
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on his maiden 3-day state visit to United States.
PM Modi will be in the US till June 23 and visit New York City and Washington, D.C
PM Modi, who arrived in New York on Wednesday, during his state visit, exchanged gifts with US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden. Here's all that was exchanged.
PM Modi gifted First Lady Jill Biden an eco-friendly 7.5-carat lab-grown diamond.
The green diamond is housed in a Kalamdani, which is a Kashmiri style of papier mâché box.
Modi also gifted a sandalwood box handcrafted in Jaipur. The sandalwood is sourced from Mysore, Karnataka.
The sandalwood box contains an idol of Lord Ganesh and a silver diya handcrafted by a family of 5th-generation silversmiths from Kolkata. The box also contains 'Das danam' or 10 donations.
Modi gifted Joe Biden a first edition copy of "The Ten Principal Upanishads", a 1937 English translation by WB Yeats of Shree Purohit Swami's book.