Sudarshan Pattnaik was born in 1977 in a poor family in Puri, India and dropped out of school. He developed a passion for sand sculpture as a child while playing at the beach. Though he had to work to support his family from a young age, he continued practicing his art form. His talent was discovered and he began participating in national and international competitions, winning many awards. Some of his major achievements include receiving the Padma Shri award from the Indian government in 2014, setting a Guinness World Record for the world's tallest sand castle, and representing India in over 50 international sand sculpture events.

1. Sudarshan Pattnaik
Inspirational Story
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“The beach is my canvas and my fingers, the
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4. •Sudarshan Pattnaik was born on
15 April, 1977 in a poor family and
was dropout from school.
•His home town is the holiest city
city of Orissa Puri , the city of lord
Jagannath and city of sea beach.
•He used play with sands in the Sea
beach . While playing with sands,
he has developed the art of making
small sculptures. Soon he became
passionate about the art.
•But meanwhile his father left him
and his family in an early age and
the little money that came into the
house was from his grandmother’s
pension.
•The little Sudarshan has to start working in
his neighbour’s house as a domestic help.
•His daily schedule was to rise early in the
morning and go to the beach for his self
satisfying art love and after couple of hours he
used to get back to his dedicated duty at the
neighbour’s place.
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5. Journey to success
•People appreciated his unique talent.
•One day a team of national news channel discovered him surrounded by crowd and looking at his spell
bounding art. The tv production team found it very interesting and they covered his story of sand art in their
channel.
•Soon his work started getting publish in various print and
electronics medium.
•Gradually he participated in different championships and art
competitions in national and international level.
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6. His sand sculptures cover current issues,
public awareness, save environment, social
issues, global issues, famous personalities,
famous festivals, national integrity and
religious tolerance and more.
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7. Dream with SAND
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8. Achievements
He was awarded Padma
Shri by Government of
India, the fourth highest
civilian award in India, in
2014 for his contribution
in sand arts.
He won People’s Choice
Awards at the 1st
Moscow International
Sand Sculpture
Championship held in
Russia.
He has got Guinness World
Record by building the
world’s tallest sand castle
which is 48 feet and 8 inch
(14.84 metre) at the Puri
beach .
He won gold medal as 1st
prize in Russia at Saint
Peters Burg in 12th
International sand
sculpture competition in
2013.
He was the brand
ambassador of NALCO
,India.
He established "The
Golden Sand Art
Institute" which is first
of its nature in India.
Sudarshan has
represented India in 50
international Sand Sculpture
championship and festivals all
around the world and Won 27
(Twenty seven) championship
prizes for the country.
The 15 feet Santa Clause
sculpture made by him
was the tallest ever
Santa Clause in the
world books.
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9. Thank you
Start dreaming ,dreams come true.
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