Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday gifted his British counterpart David Cameron a specially handcrafted pair of bookends with verses from Bhagavad Gita engraved on it and a book compiling letters sent by Indian soldiers during the World War I when they served in France. "Presented PM @David_Cameron a specially handcrafted pair of bookends made of wood, marble and silver," Modi tweeted. Presented PM @David_Cameron a specially handcrafted pair of bookends made of wood, marble and silver. @Number10gov pic.twitter.com/5oyma9nhTL — Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) November 13, 2015 The centrepiece of each of these bookends is a silver bell which has a verse from the Bhagavad Gita etched in Sanskrit, along with its English meaning along the inside rim. These verses are taken from Chapter 13 of the Bhagavad Gita. [related-post] 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 First Lady Samantha Cameron, he presented Aranmula metal mirror, a unique GI protected handicraft from Kerala, and some pashmina stoles.
