Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik created a sand sculpture of Santa Claus using onions at Puri’s Blue Flag beach with the message ‘Gift A Plant, Green The Earth’ on the eve of Christmas. Odisha’s sand artist also mentioned the need of the hour to plant more trees, thus the reason behind using onion in his sculpture.(ANI) Sudarsan Pattnaik told ANI that in making this giant sculpture, two tonnes of onions were used. Wrap up the year gone by & gear up for 2024 with HT! Click here “Every year, during Christmas, we try to create some different sculptures at Puri’s Blue Flag beach. This time we have created world’s biggest onion and sand installation Santa Claus which is 100 feet long 20 feet high and 40 feet wide We have used two tonnes of onions. We tried to give a message: ‘Gift A Plant, Green The Earth,” he said. Odisha’s sand artist also mentioned the need of the hour to plant more trees, thus the reason behind using onion in his sculpture. “We all know the …