Sand artist to sculpt Mahatma Gandhi in Berlin

Bhubaneswar | June 06, 2005 9:42:43 PM IST

Bhubaneswar, June 6 : Orissa's famed sand sculpture artiste Sudarsan Patnaik will create the image of Mahatma Gandhi with sand at a competition in Berlin this month.
Patnaik will make a 20-ft-high statue of Matmaha Gandhi at the annual Berlin International Sand Sculpture Competition being held June 8-18.
Patnaik, who lives in Orissa's Puri town, 56 km from here, said: "The festival organisers asked me to make the image of my favourite hero and I decided to create the image of the Mahatma."

"The sculpture will take almost 60 hours to complete," the 28-year-old artiste said.

(IANS)

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