Total 15 artists from across the world, including Sudarshan Pattnaik, were selected to showcase their art at the 16th Reverse Beach International Sand Sculpting Festival held in Boston. In this festival, Mr. Patnaik was representing the whole of Asia. Mr. Pattnaik, received the most honorable Padmashree award in 2014 from former Indian President Pranab Mukarjee.

At Boston he won the heart of the audience through his artwork. He made his sand art on the global issue of plastic pollution with the message inscribed ‘Save Our Ocean’, this year. He was taken 3 days to prepare the basic model.

After winning the people choice award, he dedicated the award to the entire nation. In his art he showed the turtle trapped in a plastic bag and the slippers, bottles, etc. stuck in the fish belt. Fishtail was shown in the mouth of a human. His message was that not only the marine creatures are affected by plastic pollution, humans are also affected.

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Former President Pranab Mukherjee will get Bharat Ratna on August 8. According to information from other sources, Pranab Mukharjee will be honored with Bharat Ratna by Rashtrapati Bhavan on August 8, 2019.

On the eve of 70th Republic Day of this year, the central government Modi has given a proposal to Bharatiya Jana Sangh ideologue and one of the founding members of Bharatiya Janata Party Nanaji Deshmukh, the famous Assamese poet as well as a great composer Bhupen Hazarika and our former President Pranab Mukharjee.

After that, the current President Ramanath Kovind had announced the award of Bharat Ratna to these three celebrities including India’s former President Pranab Mukharjee. This is the highest civilian award of Hindustan, which is given for extraordinary national service. Nanaji Deshmukh and Bhupen Hazarika will receive this honor posthumously.

Pranab Mukharjee served as the 13th president of India from 2012 to 2017. As a strong congressman, Pranab Mukherjee had held various key portfolios like Finance, Defence and External Affairs as Union Minister. Pranab Mukherjee was born in a Bengali family. He earned as an MA degree in Political Science and History and LL.B. from the University of Calcutta. He has also served as a professor of Political Science at West Bengal. Before entering politics, he was working as a journalist with ‘Desher Dak’.

So far 45 persons have been honored with Bharat Ratna and now on 8th August, this number will be 48. For the last time, this honor was given to former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya in 2015.

We congratulate Mr. Pranab Mukharjee for this honor.

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