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PM Modi Gifts Award-Winning Indian Cheeses to Swiss President
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News18•06-10-2026, 13:34
PM Modi Gifts Award-Winning Indian Cheeses to Swiss President
- •Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented three award-winning Indian artisanal cheeses to Swiss President Guy Parmelin to promote the Make in India initiative.
- •The gifted cheeses include Gulmarg, a heart-shaped French-style Brie that won Super Gold at the 2026 Mundial do Queijo do Brasil.
- •Konark is a French Tomme-style cheese with a lemon finish that earned awards at the World Cheese Awards in Norway and Switzerland.
- •Yeoor is a Swiss Gruyre-inspired mountain-style cheese aged for eight to nine months, featuring a rind decorated with rose petals and fennel.
- •Additional gifts included an intricate Kashmiri walnut wood wall panel and a Kutchi shawl presented in a Sadeli box to Caroline Parmelin.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented Swiss President Guy Parmelin with three award-winning Indian artisanal cheeses: Gulmarg, a French-style Brie; Konark, a French Tomme-style cheese; and Yeoor, a mountain-style cheese inspired by Swiss Gruyère.
All three cheeses gifted to the Swiss President—Gulmarg, Konark, and Yeoor—are crafted by Eleftheria Cheese, a Mumbai-based artisanal cheesemaker.
Alongside the cheeses, PM Modi gifted a hand-carved Himalayan walnut wood wall panel depicting traditional Kashmiri landscapes and village life, as well as a Kutchi shawl placed inside a Sadeli box for the Swiss president’s wife, Caroline Parmelin.
