Prime Minister Narendra Modi and United States President Joe Biden exhanged unique gifts with each other during a private dinner hosted by the latter and First Lady Jill Biden on Thursday at the White House.
Narendra Modi Thanks Joe Biden, First Lady For Hosting Him At White House
Narendra Modi thanked both of them for hosting him at the White House and noted that they held “great conversation” on several subjects.
Modi in a tweet stated, “I thank @POTUS @JoeBiden and @FLOTUS @DrBiden for hosting me at the White House today. We had a great conversation on several subjects.”
Biden had welcomed Modi for an intimate dinner at the White House. Moreover, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and his US counterpart Jake Sullivan, Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra and Deputy Chief of Protocol Aseem Vohra attended the dinner.
The two leaders exchanged gifts at the White House. Modi presented a special sandalwood box to Biden that has been handcrafted by a master craftsman from Jaipur. He gifted a lab-grown 7.5-carat green diamond and papier mache to Jill Biden.
Biden and First Lady presented Modi with a handmade, antique American book galley from the early 20th Century. Biden gifted a vintage American camera, accompanied by an archival facsimile print of George Eastman’s Patent of the first Kodak camera, and a hardcover book of American wildlife photography. Jill Biden gifted a signed, first-edition copy of “Collected Poems of Robert Frost” to Modi.
