Prime Minister Narendra Modi gifted special gifts to US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden and they hosted him at the White House for intimate dinner.
PM Modi presented a sandalwood box to President Biden, which has been handcrafted by an artisan from Jaipur and the sandalwood for the box has been sourced from Mysore in Karnataka.
The box contains an idol of the Lord Ganesha, a diya, handcrafted by artisans from the family of fifth-generation silversmiths in Kolkata and copper plate, sourced from Uttar Pradesh.
The box also contains 10 symbolic pieces of donation items, kept in handcrafted silver boxes. The items include - handcrafted silver coconut, fragrant piece of sandalwood, 'Til' or white sesame seeds sourced from Tamil Nadu, 24K pure and hallmarked gold coin, Ghee or clarified butter, a handwoven textured tussar silk cloth, long-grained rice, jaggery, 99.5 per cent pure and hallmarked silver coin and salt from PM Modi's home state of Gujarat.
PM Modi also gifted a lab-grown 7.5-carat green diamond to Jill Biden. The diamond is placed in a papier mâché box known as kar-e-kalamdani.