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Namastey Here to Stay? 6 Times the Desi Greeting Grabbed Headlines in 2020
News 18Among all things that have been negatively impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, contact-based greetings are perhaps the worst hit. In February, ‘Kem Chho Trump’, the mega event for Donald Trump in Gujarat, was named ‘Namaste, President Trump’ as the Centre decided to switch in the regional theme for a national one. Indian rapper Baba Sehgal in one his recent raps, NAMASTE – CoronaVirus sey bachney ka Indian Tareeka spread awareness about the COVID-19 virus in the ‘Indian style’ through musical beats. Macron was in London to mark the 80th anniversary of former French President Charles de Gaulle’s famous appeal to resist the Nazis during the World War II.It was observed that all of them greeted each other with folded hands embracing the Indian style of ‘namaste‘. And it seems the Indian ‘namaste‘ is a popular choice as world leaders like France’s Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s Angela Merkel seem to have adopted it as their chosen form of greeting.The French President Macron was hosting Merkel for talks at his summer residence in a medieval island fortress in the Mediterranean, in southern France.
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