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US team documents 'extraordinary' project in Manipur
The Telegraph | Calcutta, Feb. 12:
It is not unusual for a campaign to be on a social networking site now. But a campaign that Facebook takes note of has to be remarkable. What shook the Facebook headquarters in California this time was the Great Indian Road, the dream project of young IAS officer Armstrong Pame.
As part of a project to document the “extraordinary use of the social network”, Peter Jordan, film producer at Facebook, commissioned filmmaker Arpita Sinha in Delhi to make a documentary on the effort. After Sinha was contacted on January 19, her team went up to Tousem subdivision to find a teenager with a Mohawk haircut beside a Naga elder in traditional attire, both hard at work, building a much-needed road in the biting cold. Their unbeatable attitude was the stuff of legends.
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