BRICS Leaders Praise Sudarshan Pattnaik’s ‘Sand Monuments’
BENAULIM (Goa): The heads of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) visited the sand sculptures of monuments of all the five member countries created in the lobby of a five-star resort here and praised the renowned Odisha-born Sand artist Sudarshan Pattnaik.
Sand Monuments of Sudarsan pattanaik
"It was a great honour when Prime Minister Narendra Modi explained the importance of all the monuments to the heads of the states. The leaders spent around ten minutes looking at the monuments and also clicked a group photograph," Pattnaik told in his twitter handle.
Total 45-50 tonnes of sand was used in it, he said.
The award-winning sand artist had used sand from all the five different nations to create the sculptures. All the respective Governments had volunteered to send the sand.
While Taj Mahal represents India in the Monuments, the sculptures also include Great Wall of China (China), Saint Basil Cathedral (Russia), Christ the Redeemer (Brazil) and Statue of Nelson Mandela (South Africa).
Pattnaik said the sand sculptures were created over three days before the BRICS event kicked-off.
"It is a great honour that I was given an opportunity to show the creativity during an event of such a massive scale. The message through the sculpture is unity of all the nations," the artist wrote in his twitter account.
Worthwhile to mention, the Leaders of the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Russian Federation, the Republic of India, the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of South Africa, met on 15-16 October 2016 in Goa, India, at the Eighth BRICS Summit, which was held under the theme “Building Responsive, Inclusive and Collective Solutions.”
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