PM Modi, First Lady interact with young minds

Prime Minister Narendra Modi began his Washington DC visit with an unusual event, in an unusual location, with unusual guests. But it was that difference which, in some ways, captured both the old strengths of the bilateral relationship and new domains of what India and America are seeking to do together.

- Prashant Jha

AT TOP RESEARCH INSTITUTE

Soon after landing at the Andrews Air Force Base and checking into Willard hotel in DC on Wednesday, Modi headed to the National Science Foundation (NSF), the premier public scientific research body in the United States (US), in Virginia’s Alexandria where First Lady Jill Biden was waiting to host him.

On the dais with the leaders were two students: Anchal Sharma of Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi who is on a Fulbright fellowship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is working on a project to a create a model for language of graphical communication to aid learning for the visually challenged, and Williams Ochoa, a first-generation student at Montgomery College in biotechnology, from a family that had immigrated from El Salvador.