An American youth from the USA visited tribal dominated Sundargarh recently to meet his Facebook friend.
Sources said Ankit Pandia, son of Chintamani Pandia, a native of Rangadipa area of Sundargarh town, studies engineering in a private engineering college at Sundargarh. A couple of months back, Ankit had found account of one James of USA and had sent a friend request to him. James, who works as a teacher in a university there, had accepted the friendship of Ankit. Later Ankit and James had started interacting through Facebook in regular interval and their friendship had grown stronger, following which both of them wanted to meet each other.
"As our friendship bond developed, we wanted to meet each other and as I was unable to bear the travelling expenses to visit to USA, James had agreed to come to Sundargarh and had arrived here accordingly," said Ankit. James was given a rousing reception at Jharsuguda airport by Ankit, when he arrived on Friday morning in Delhi - Jharsuguda flight. Ankit's parents and family members also gave a warm welcome to the foreign guest at their Sundargarh home.
James was served traditional Odia food and became happy after eating Odia cuisines. James had gifted a toy aeroplane to Ankit. Both the friends had a tour to Sundargarh town, before boarding his return flight to Delhi during evening from Jharsuguda. "I enjoyed after meeting my Facebook friend Ankit and his family, at his home town.I thoroughly enjoyed their hospitality," said James in his reaction.