New Delhi: Praising India for its diversity, outgoing US ambassador Timothy Roemer at a glittering farewell said the two years he and his family spent in the country were a "rewarding and beautiful" experience, during which the relationship between New Delhi and Washington attained new highs.
"This has been a very, very beautiful and rewarding experience for my family... India brings everything at you, love, warmth, challenges, contrast... We have seen it from all perspectives," Roemer said in his short speech at the farewell function in a luxury hotel.
For the event held in his honour, the Maurya Sheraton Kamal Mahal looked like a fort palace of Rajasthan. Folk musicians from the state serenaded the guests as colourfully turbaned waiters walked through offering cocktails and snacks to the invited guests.
Roemer, 54, rather connected well with the audience and greeted everybody with "namaste, namaskar and salaam alykum".
"We have now built up the global partnership in a way which not only encompasses security and counter terrorism, but we also have a shared strategic vision and the outcome in Afghanistan," he said.
He talked about how President Barack Obama wanted him to connect with an average Indian and shake a billion hands.
Accompanied by his wife Sally and four kids, Roemer entered the Kamal Mahal amid warm welcome and musicians played "Beautiful America and Vande Mataram".
The photograph was clicked Monday outside Roosevelt House, the official residence of the US ambassador in New Delhi.
Roemer was picked by Obama for the post of Indian ambassador in May 2009 and and he will be relinquishing the charge in July.
"This has been a very, very beautiful and rewarding experience for my family... India brings everything at you, love, warmth, challenges, contrast... We have seen it from all perspectives," Roemer said in his short speech at the farewell function in a luxury hotel.
For the event held in his honour, the Maurya Sheraton Kamal Mahal looked like a fort palace of Rajasthan. Folk musicians from the state serenaded the guests as colourfully turbaned waiters walked through offering cocktails and snacks to the invited guests.
Roemer, 54, rather connected well with the audience and greeted everybody with "namaste, namaskar and salaam alykum".
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"We have now built up the global partnership in a way which not only encompasses security and counter terrorism, but we also have a shared strategic vision and the outcome in Afghanistan," he said.
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He talked about how President Barack Obama wanted him to connect with an average Indian and shake a billion hands.
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Accompanied by his wife Sally and four kids, Roemer entered the Kamal Mahal amid warm welcome and musicians played "Beautiful America and Vande Mataram".
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The photograph was clicked Monday outside Roosevelt House, the official residence of the US ambassador in New Delhi.
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Roemer was picked by Obama for the post of Indian ambassador in May 2009 and and he will be relinquishing the charge in July.
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