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Tribal girl rubs shoulders with G8 titans

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L'Aquila (Italy): A 16 year old tribal girl from Orissa's Koraput district rubbed shoulders with world leaders at the Junior Eight summit in Italy.

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Sanjukta Pangi is representing India in the J8 (Junior 8) international youth summit, which is currently being held in Italy along with the G8 conclave.

Hailing from a small tribal community of Orissa, blushing Pangi don't even know the names of the leaders she had met in Italy's town of L'aquila, the venue of G8 summit.

"I don't know the names, but I think met African, especially Indian leader and I think American and Mexican leaders," she said.

Text: ANI

Images: Copyright PTI. Any unauthorized reproduction is prohibited.

Image: Sanjukta Pangi from Koraput, Orissa one of the Indian youths representing India at the J8 summit, which is happening alongside the G8 summit in Rome on Thursday.


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