Modi’s
Gift to Various Leaders
Year
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Country & heads
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What Gifted?
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Other Trivia
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May 2015
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Ms.
Park Geun-Hye, President,
South
Korea
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Two
finely woven pashmina stoles on which a poem that Rabindranath Tagore had
written specially for Korea is hand embroidered in English and Korean
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The
text of Tagore’s poem that was published in 1929 in the Korean daily Dong-A
Ilbo is as below:
In the golden age of Asia
Korea was one of its lamp bearers
And that lamp is waiting
To be lighted once again
For the illumination of the East
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Mr.
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj,
President,
Mongolia
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Reproduction
of a rare 13th century manuscript on the history of Mongols from the Rampur
Raza Library, Rampur
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Called
Jamiut Tawarikh, this work was one of the grandest projects undertaken by the
Ilkhanate king Ghazan Khan (1295-1304) and was done by the king’s wazir
Rasheeduddin Fazlullah Hamedani who wrote it in Persian and chronicled the
history up to the reign of Oljeitju (1304-1316). The breadth of coverage of
the work often caused it to be dubbed as the first world history. The
manuscript has over 80 fine miniature illustrations. The manuscript is a part
of Volume 1 of the work and no other copy of it is known to exist.
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April 2015
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Mr.
Stephen Carper
PM,
Canada
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A
Miniature Painting titled Guru Nanak Dev
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More
Sikh Population in Canada
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Shows
Guru Nanak with his two disciples (Bhai Mardana and Bhai Bala)
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Painting
done by Jaipur based artist Virendra Bannu
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Mr.
Francois Hollande
President,
France
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Painting
titled “Tree of life”
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Painting
done by Odisha Artist Bhaskar Mahapatra
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Ms.
Angela Merkel
Chancellor,
Germany
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Some
manuscripts and papers by Sir C. V. Raman
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Sir
C. V. Raman had a strong connection with Germany
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Sir
C. V. Raman compared German Physicist Herman Von Helmboltz to Sir Issac
Newton
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Mr.
Stefan Schostok
Mayor
of Hannover, Germany
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Madhubhani
Painting depicting various stages of life, association with nature
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Painting
done by Smt. Baua Devi
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Modi’s Gift to Germany
Modi’s
Gift to Canada è
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Modi’s Gift to France
Jan 2015
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Mr.
Barack Obama
President,
USA
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A
copy of the first telegram from US to India’s Constituent Assembly in 1946
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Telegram
was sent by the then acting secretary of State, Dean Acheson to
Sachchidananda Sinha (Provisional Chairman of the Constituent Assembly)
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A
set of recordings from the tour of American singer Marian Anderson
(1897-1993) to India in 1957 during which she sang Gandhi’s favourite hymn
Lead Kindly Light at Gandhi Smriti –
the site of his assassination in the capital in 1948 which is now preserved
as a memorial.
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The
recordings comprise an interview Ms Anderson gave to All India Radio, as also a video from CBS
Television programme See it Now that captured her rendition
of the hymn at the Gandhi Smriti. She was the first foreign dignitary ever to
have been invited to speak at the Smriti.
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Nov 2014
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Mr.
Tony Abbott
PM,
Australia
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Australian
lawyer John Lang’s 1854 petition against the East India Company on behalf of
Rani Lakshmibai
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Born
in 1816 in Sydney, Lang is generally regarded as Australia’s first native
novelist. As a man of many talents, he was also a lawyer, journalist and born
traveller.
In
1842, he sailed to India and made the country his new home, even learning the
Hindustani language. While carrying on a successful legal practice, he
started a newspaper in 1845 called The
Moffusilite, published initially from Meerut and later from Mussoorie.
The paper often took a critical stance against the East India Company’s
harmful policies and consequently he was sued and briefly jailed by the
Company.
In
1854, Lang became the counsel of Lakshmibai — an iconic figure in the Indian
uprising of 1857.
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A
replica of the Man Singh Trophy - a prized possession of Sikh regiment
battalions
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Modi’s Gift to Australia
Oct 2014
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Mr.
Barack Obama
President,
USA
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A
'Gita by Gandhi' in Khadi cover
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Rogan
Art
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Oil
based art in India is the sole preserve of a Khatri Muslim family based in
Kutch Region of Gujarat
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Audio-video
clips from the 1959 India visit of Martin Luther King.
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Sep 2014
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Japanese
Emperor Akihito
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Bhagavad
Gita
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Gift to Modi
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Presented by
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Other Trivia
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Indian
Sculpture Parrot Lady to Modi
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Mr.
Stephen Harper
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Carved
for placement in one of the Khajuraho Temples (Madhya Pradesh)
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