‘Chennai, you have my heart’: US Ambassador to India relishes South Indian meals

Sharing his experience on Twitter, Garcetti said, “I tried the iconic South Indian thali on a banana leaf, and I am so impressed by the complexity of these delicious South Indian delights. Chennai, you have my heart and I am excited to see you soon.”

Earlier today, Garcetti praised National Security Advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval and said that the village boy from Uttarakhand has not only become a national treasure but an international treasure. The US Ambassador to India also lauded his vision for India and compared it to the vision of the US NSA Jake Sullivan.

“Ajit Doval, a village boy from Uttarakhand, who now has not become only a national treasure but an international treasure, who has had the same vision to come together and say what can we do to change the course of this century, to quote NSA Jake Sullivan, to take us forward,” Garcetti said at the United States-India initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET) meet in Delhi.

Garcetti added that the foundation between India and the US is very strong. US NSA Jake Sullivan also added that the US President Joe Biden is thrilled to see how things unfold in India. 

“As we look ahead to the state visit that PM Modi will be embarking upon in Washington next week, a number of the deliverables at that visit are not just bullet points on a page, they are fundamentally designed to remove obstacles in defence and high-tech trades and in taking away obstacles that have stood in the way of better collaboration among our scientists and researchers,” Sullivan told news agency ANI.

Updated: 14 Jun 2023, 05:51 PM IST