Narayanappa R

US president Barack Obama's whirlwind tour of India ended on Tuesday. But 69-year-old weaver Narayanappa R from Bangalore is an embittered man because all his efforts to personally meet Obama and gift him a three feet by three feet silk stole that he and his wife had hand woven and could be folded and fit into a match box came to a nought.

If things work out for 69-year-old R Narayanappa, and his 65-year-old wife Kamalamma, a weaver couple, they'll present a stole and a scarf that can fit right in a matchbox to the President of the United States when he comes visiting in November. The weaver couple is working day and night to weave a stole for him, and a scarf for his wife Michelle. ...

US president Barack Obama's whirlwind tour of India ended on Tuesday. But 69-year-old weaver Narayanappa R from Bangalore is an embittered man because all his efforts to personally meet Obama and gift him a three feet by three feet silk stole that he and his wife had hand woven and could be folded and fit into a match box came to a nought.

If things work out for 69-year-old R Narayanappa, and his 65-year-old wife Kamalamma, a weaver couple, they'll present a stole and a scarf that can fit right in a matchbox to the President of the United States when he comes visiting in November. The weaver couple is working day and night to weave a stole for him, and a scarf for his wife Michelle. ...