A sand cake for Sachin

As many as 38 bats will be made for India’s master-blaster Sachin Tendulkar on his 38th birthday on Sunday, but he will not be scoring runs with them. There will be a big, colourful birthday cake baked for this occasion, but he will not be able to take a bite of it.


 Internationally-renowned sand artist, Sudarsan Pattnaik is getting ready to create 38 bats and a big sand-cake to celebrate Sachin Tendulkar’s birthday in a unique way. “We shall be displaying 38 bats and a large-sized cake made of sand on Puri beach,” says the 34-year-old sand artist from Jagannathpuri, a holy place in Bhubaneshwar.

“After 28 years, India created history again by winning the ICC Cricket World Cup last month. We celebrated this glorious moment in a unique way by creating a sand sculpture on the Puri beach. We made a World Cup and 5-foot-high bats with the sign ‘Jai Ho’ using 7 tonnes of sand, and dedicated our work to the best Indian performers in the World Cup,” he says. There is a popular myth in Orissa about sand sculpture. During the Rath Yatra in the 14th century, a devotee of Lord Jagannath was refused entry into the chariot to pray to the Lord.

 He made three chariots of sand on the Puri beachThe Lord disappeared from the original chariot and came to his sand chariot to receive his prayers. This myth shows that the art is more than 700 years old in India. “I want to dedicate my art to Sachin on his birthday. I shall take photographs of the bats and cake and send them to his Bandra residence,” the artist further added.

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