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Carver of small things

 Seventy-one-year-old Rusi Bharucha’s hobby of working with small things — whittling on chalk and lead, bonsai, and making his own tools for pruning and shaping of his small creations, won him second place at the global "Art in a Capsule” competition organized by Indian multinational pharmaceutical company ACG in May this year. Competitors were required to submit their work — either a sculpture or a rolled up artwork — that could fit into a capsule. When Bharucha received a call from the organizers that his 13 mm x 5.2 mm sculptures in pencil lead of Moses, a ghodha (winged bull),......



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brilliant carvings ,
attention to detail , good going Mr. Bharucha
- Hormuzd J Irani
- 21-Oct-2019

 

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