Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanked US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden for hosting him an intimate dinner at the White House. Modi noted that they held "great conversation" on several subjects.
Taking to his official Twitter handle, Modi stated, "I thank @POTUS @JoeBiden and @FLOTUS @DrBiden for hosting me at the White House today. We had a great conversation on several subjects."
US President Biden on Wednesday (local time) welcomed Modi for an intimate dinner at the White House, a day before the high-profile state dinner.
National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and his US counterpart Jake Sullivan, Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra and Deputy Chief of Protocol Aseem Vohar also attended the dinner.
During the dinner, they enjoyed a musical tribute to the regions of India, performed by youth dancers from Studio Dhoom, a DMV- based Indian dance studio that helps connect a new generation to the vibrant culture of Indian dance, according to the White House.
Modi gifted Biden a special box, for which sandalwood was sourced from Karnataka’s Mysore and it was handcrafted by artisans in Rajasthan’s Jaipur. The box has all ‘puja’ essentials, including a silver idol of Lord Ganesha and a ‘diya’ made in West Bengal’s Kolkata.
He also gifted a lab-grown 7.5-carat green diamond and 'papier mache' to US First Lady Jill Biden.
US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden presented the PM a handmade and antique American book galley from the early 20th Century as part of the official gift. Joe Biden also gifted Modi 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 Modi a signed and first edition copy of ‘Collected Poems of Robert Frost’: The White House.
