PM Modi delighted the three children of the US Vice President J D Vance and US Second Lady Usha Chilukuri with unique gifts. Meeting the Vance family during the AI summit in Paris, Modi also attended the birthday celebration of Vivek, one of the US Vice President’s son. The evening was marked by a dinner hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron. Modi presented a wooden railway toy set to Vivek. Ewan Blaine Vance received a jigsaw puzzle featuring Indian folk paintings.
For French President Macron, Modi chose a “Dokra artwork” of musicians, intricate and detailed, made using ancient lost-wax technique from Chhattisgarh. For the First Lady of France, Brigitte Macron, an ‘exquisite silver hand-engraved table mirror’ from Rajasthan was selected.