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Yogi Adityanath’s Selfie With Japanese Children Reveals Cultural Connection

Yogi Adityanath’s Selfie With Japanese Children Reveals Cultural Connection

A video showed Yogi Adityanath meeting Japanese schoolchildren.

He smiled and helped them take photographs with a selfie stick.

The children acted in a friendly and relaxed way around him.

The article says this may be because monks are familiar figures in Japanese communities.

In India, saffron-clad monks are often seen as people who have given up ordinary worldly life.

The meeting therefore created a surprising sense of familiarity between people from different countries.

It happened while Uttar Pradesh and Japanese institutions were also discussing business and development.

The writer sees the moment as an example of friendship growing through simple human gestures.

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