Last Update: January 13, 2023, 14:10 IST
Hockey World Cup: Sudarshan creates rice husk mosaic art of trophy to encourage Indian team (IANS)
Sudarshan Patnaik creates rice husk mosaic of FIH World Cup 2023 trophy with ‘Chak De India’ message
India will play its first match in FIH Men’s Hockey World Cup against Spain on Friday at 7 PM at the Birsa Munda Hockey Stadium in Rourkela, for which people across Odisha are sending their best wishes to Team India.
Renowned sand artist of the state and Padma Shri awardee Sudarshan Patnaik has created a rich husk mosaic art in Sonepur on the theme of World Cup Hockey with the message ‘Chak De India’.
At the invitation of the Sonpur Mahotsav of the District Administration, Sonpur, Patnaik created a rice husk mosaic art of the World Cup Hockey Trophy to cheer the team India And also give a message to the world that art can be made from anything like rice husk in Sonepur.
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The rice husk mosaic art has been made in an area of 4682 square feet using around 100 bags of rice husk with the help of 10 students of his institute at the indoor stadium in Sonpur. The mosaic art was created in six hours.
He said that this mosaic art would be displayed in the Sonepur festival which is going to start from January 14. After the end of the exhibition, all the rice husk will be returned to the owner for its reuse, Patnaik said.
It was an overwhelming experience for him as he was joined by many school students, and he got the opportunity to interact with the students and teach them about art.
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