New Delhi: While addressing the media after bilateral talks today, US President Barack Obama sportingly tried his hand at Hindi. He spoke of his "pyaar-bhara namaskar" and his "chai pe charcha" with Prime Minister Narendra Modi which saw them sitting down on the lawns of Hyderabad House for a headline-stalking cup of tea (for sticklers, one of the pots placed in front of them was labelled "coffee").
Mr Obama ended his media statement by invoking "chalein saath saath" - which was the title of the joint op-ed he wrote with PM Modi during the latter's visit to Washington DC last year.
"Your reputation preceded you," Mr Obama recalled of that visit. "You were received like a Bollywood star at Madison Square Garden," he added. PM Modi, wearing a pin-striped bandh gala suit, laughed.
In September, the PM addressed a whopping 18,000 NRIs at the Madison Square Garden in New York. The event was dubbed "a rock-star reception" by local and international media. At a lunch hosted for the PM by Vice-President Joe Biden, US Secretary of State Kohn Kerry had said, "We can never top the rock star reception you got at Madison Square Garden."
Mr Obama ended his media statement by invoking "chalein saath saath" - which was the title of the joint op-ed he wrote with PM Modi during the latter's visit to Washington DC last year.
In September, the PM addressed a whopping 18,000 NRIs at the Madison Square Garden in New York. The event was dubbed "a rock-star reception" by local and international media. At a lunch hosted for the PM by Vice-President Joe Biden, US Secretary of State Kohn Kerry had said, "We can never top the rock star reception you got at Madison Square Garden."
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