Prime Minister Manmohan Singh [ Images ] on Friday spoke to Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams [ Images ] and invited her to visit him in New Delhi [ Images ].
Dr Singh said Williams was a "role model" for Indian children and a "source of inspiration" for Indian women, a Prime Mminister's Office spokesman said.
Williams, who created a record of spending 195 days in space, arrived in Gujarat from London [ Images ] on Thursday. She is on a week-long visit to the home state of her father.
The astronaut visited the famous Sabarmati Ashram of Mahatma Gandhi [ Images ] on Thursday and will go to her ancestral home in Jhulasan on Friday.
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