According to a media report several days before President Obama's visit "U.S. and Indian security officials visited the small two-story building and ordered the looping off of ripe coconuts from the trees to prevent any accidental bonking".
Clearly the report is US-centric as the term "bonking" has an entirely different connotation in Europe.
Having witnessed at first hand the elaborate security measures that surrounded the visit of then President Clinton to a museum I worked for, this lopping coconuts comes as no surprise.
Menawhile in New delhi an enterprising Indian designer has taken to converting Michelle Obama printed shopping bags into sets of conversation pillows.
She claims she has made the pillows because she considers the first lady an "inspirational icon," but her ulterior motive is to lure her into the store to present her with a set. No doubt this will generate a lot of free publicity for her design studio.
The Indian twittershpere has been sharing their humorous insights of the tour.
One wit has noted that the twitter term "Air Force One" has been ranking higher than the President's name, causing him to comment "Air Force One is in trending while Obama is not, so his carrier overtakes his career".
Much has also been made of Obama's anticipated visit to the Golden Temple in Amritsar. One twitter user is sure the US president will never visit Bangalore.
"Those buggers will make him outsource his presidency, that too at $10/Man Hour," he tweeted.
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