Other States - Orissa   

Sudarsan Patnaik set to score world record

Correspondent

Busy giving shape to 100-foot sand sculpture of Santa Claus

BHUBANESWAR: Internationally acclaimed sand sculptor Sudarsan Patnaik is set to score a world record on Sunday in his hometown of Puri.

Sudarsan, winner of the first prize at the last Berlin international sand sculpture competition, is busy sculpting a 100-foot long Santa Claus since Friday on the beach of this holy town that he intends to present as his Christmas gift to the world.

Assisted by 15 of his disciples, including seven girls, he is designing the 15-foot high image that would require about 1000 tones of sand. ``This would fetch us a world record in the Limca Book of Records in their next edition,'' claimed Sudarsan, who has been instrumental in getting global recognition for this 700-year-old art tradition of Puri.

``I have checked with the Limca Book of Records officials and have learnt that no such sand sculpture has ever been erected anywhere in the world,'' said an ecstatic Sudarsan.

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Stories in this Section

Endeavour to popularise folk arts
Sudarsan Patnaik set to score world record
Ashram in a state of neglect
Goes to great lengths to greet his pal!
Package to develop Satyabadi
Awareness programme on snakes
State move on iron ore mines faulted
Union Minister lays stone for trauma care centre
Show-cause notice to housing board
Student groups sink differences
BMC to come out with energy consumption norms
Court directs rehabilitation of sex workers
Re-plantation surgery opens up new vistas in State
Elephants destroy paddy fields

Copyright © 2006, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu