Sudarsan Pattnaik to represent India at Moscow Sand Art Championship

Sudarsan with his son at the Puri Beach. Pic courtesy: @sudarsansand

Bhubaneswar: Internationally acclaimed sand artist from Odisha Sudarsan Pattnaik will represent India in the 10th Moscow Sand Art Championship 2017.

The sand art championship would be held from April 22-28 at Kolomenskoye, Moscow in Russia.

Several top sculptors selected from different countries would participate in the championship. The theme of the competition is "The World around US", said Sudarsan.

Last year, he had won gold medal in Moscow for his sand sculpture of Mahatma Gandhi on world peace.

Recently, he created the world's tallest sand castle on Puri beach in Odisha which got a place in the Guinness World Records.