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In Pics: PM Modi gifts bookends with Gita verses to Cameron

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today presented his British counterpart David Cameron a specially handcrafted pair of bookends made of wood, marble and silver.The centerpiece of each of these bookends is a silver bell,

India TV News Desk Updated on: November 13, 2015 18:15 IST
in pics pm modi gifts bookends with gita verses to cameron
in pics pm modi gifts bookends with gita verses to cameron

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today presented his British counterpart David Cameron a specially handcrafted pair of bookends made of wood, marble and silver.

The centerpiece of each of these bookends is a silver bell, an object of rich symbolism relating to inner wisdom and tidings, which has a verse from the Bhagavad Gita etched in Sanskrit, along with its English meaning along the inside rim.

Taken from Chapter 13 of the Bhagavad Gita, these verses (15-16) describe the ultimate underlying reality. Each bell has one verse etched on it.

In addition, in view of Cameron's fondness for Robert Graves' work on World War I Goodbye to All That, the Prime Minister also presented to him David Omissi's Indian Voices of the Great War.

For the First Lady, the Prime Minister presented Aranmula metal mirror, a unique GI protected handicraft from Kerala, and some pashmina stoles.

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