Posted on 11/08/2010 1:16:02 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
New Delhi | Bedspreads, Ganeshas, toys...Michelle can't stop buying at crafts museum Monday, 08 November 2010 | http://www.nerve.in/news:253500351728 | channel: India
"The museum has over 20,000 exhibits reflecting Indian crafts traditions and seven galleries spaces for display."
New Delhi, Nov 8 - Indian textiles and handicrafts charmed their way into Michelle Obama's shopping bag Monday as the US first lady almost ran out of money, picking up bedspreads, Ganeshas and wooden toys which, she said, would make for ideal Christmas gifts!
Michelle went on a shopping spree after arriving at the National Handicrafts and Handloom Museum in Pragati Maidan complex at 10.45 a.m. She was in the museum for nearly two hours, shooting well past her one-hour scheduled programme.
Museum director Ruchira Ghosh walked Michelle through the galleries devoted to the traditional textiles, rural handicrafts and art of India.
'Michelle was so impressed with the Indian handicrafts on display that she did not want to leave the museum. She went on a shopping binge, buying almost everything that she came across,' said Ghosh.
Michelle said she would have bought more had she been left with more money, those at the museum said.
The US first lady exhausted her shopping budget at the crafts museum and said the Indian craft items were ideal gifts of Christmas, barely one-and-a-half months away!
She was clad in the same black and green dress she had worn at Mahatma Gandhi's memorial Rajghat and from where she drove down in an eight-vehicle convoy to the crafts museum while her husband and US President Barack Obama left for Hyderabad House for talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Her shopping list included four embroidered kantha bed spreads, Kutchi mobile phone bags, Kutchi dolls and a from Gujarati 'yogi thaila', which was a cloth bag with sequins and heavy embroidery.
Michelle also bought wooden toys from Karnataka, wooden key chains, three wooden Ganeshas and a wooden toy train. Part of the gifts she bought were also elephants and fans made of rice grain and rice stalk.
Also on display for the first lady were patachitra art from West Bengal, phulkari weaves from Punjab, phoosa art from Karnataka, dushala shawls from Jammu and Kashmir and handicrafts from Himachal Pradesh.
About 20 women artisans from across the country exhibited their work on the occasion.
Michelle was impressed by the rich legacy of Indian crafts.
She also interacted with 15 underprivileged girls of an NGO who make handicraft items for a living and showed a keen interest in the welfare of the girl child, museum sources said.
To add to her cultural experience were 'baul' folk singers from West Bengal.
The museum, which is usually closed Monday, was kept open specially for the first lady.
The museum was set up over a period of 30 years starting in the 1950s when the area adjacent to the Pragati Maidan was envisaged as a craft zone for artisans to work for the preservation of traditional art.
The museum has over 20,000 exhibits reflecting Indian crafts traditions and seven galleries spaces for display.
Michelle is accompanying husband Barack Obama during his first trip to India from Nov 6-9.
“Part of the gifts she bought were also elephants and fans made of rice grain and rice stalk. “
we also decided to send Obama a nice gift of many elephants :)
ROFL!!
How do you say Boob Belt in Hindi?
She’s on a billion dollar budget
I’m sure it’s not her money.
Michelle must work for Koss.
Was one of those planes empty on the out-bound trip/ Or is she sending everything home on UPS???
Sheneneh creatin’ jobs for untouchables and their chilluns in sweatshops whose tiny fingers make those crafts
LOL!
What exactly does THAT mean? Doesn't he have other countries on his list to pander to and insult? I'm sure there will be plenty of taxpayer money to go through them all once, but twice is asking too much!
Differing from Non-Muslims in Celebrations
Snip:
Avoiding Their Days
The Muslims should completely avoid the kuffaar's celebrations. This includes places where they perform their holiday practices, and indulging with them in such practices, such as:
• Christmas and New Year parties,
• Halloween trick-or-treat,
• Thanksgiving celebration and dinner,
• Fourth of July fireworks,
• First of April lies,
• birthday parties, anniversaries, etc.
Avoiding Their Ways On Their Days
The Muslims should avoid copying the kuffaar's practices on such occasions, such as:
• setting up Christmas trees in the Muslims' houses or offices,
• inviting friends to a Turkey dinner on Thanksgiving day,
• purchasing or wearing Halloween costumes,
• holding birthday or anniversary parties for family members, etc.
Ganesha, the elephant-headed god of the Hindus. Perfect! Dems are slappin’ their heads about now, “What was she thinking?”
He knows it ain't too hard to get along with somebody else's troubles,
They don't make you lose any sleep at night.
Just as long as fate is out there burstin'somebody' else's bubbles.
Everything is gonna be alright.
Steve Goodman
I don’t believe for a second that he is a Christian.
I’d prefer that she spend her money on Made in USA products.
That’s asking too much at this point, though. Keep defending her superflous spending. Do you read US Magazine as well?
I'm sticking to grumbling about the exorbitant parts of their trips that we pay for. All presidents travel but this one travels too much and too extravagantly.
And, no, I don't read US Magazine, unless you count scanning magazine covers at checkout counters. I'm not even sure I've seen USM lately.
You are not alone. His actions betray his verbal assertions. What religious training are his daughters receiving? These people are no example for others to follow.
Yeah, that was a cheap shot by me. I’m sorry. I just can’t stand anything Obama does in office.
Not to worry, you are not alone!
Can’t stop spending.
Just like her husband.
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