MUMBAI, India — President Barack Obama tried hard to avoid it, but he couldn’t escape being pulled into a dance by schoolchildren celebrating the Indian holiday of Diwali, or the festival of lights.
Obama sat for a while Sunday and watched admiringly as his wife, Michelle, joined girls dressed in blues, greens, pinks and orange in a swaying dance with graceful hand gestures.
He appeared to resist when students from Holy Name High School in Mumbai approached. Eventually, Obama gave in, got up and strutted his stuff too. He jumped around a little and made awkward sawing movements with his arms.
Michelle Obama joined the children far more enthusiastically than her husband. Perhaps it was because she’d already won over the Indian media by kicking off her flats a day earlier and dancing with underprivileged children elsewhere in Mumbai.
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