Magical artist who wrote Ramayana’s chaupai on grains: Engineer Ashok Kumar Garg

Mr Ashok Kumar Garg, a retired engineer resident of Sendhwa village of Barwa district of Madhya Pradesh, has made everyone proud by registering the name of his area on the world map. Making the world’s smallest complete chess set, making the world’s smallest melodious right flute, making the smallest idol of Lord Ganesha and registering his name in the world record in the Golden Book of World Records. After doing Diploma in Mechanical Engineering, you got selected for Public Health Department, but because since childhood you had the skill of a wonderful artist and you used to create beautiful artwork, so you continued this work even further. You are very expert in micro art, and because of this wonderful artefacts were created by you. Mr Ashok Kumar Garg made portraits of former Prime Minister Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Mrs Indira Gandhi, Mr Rajiv Gandhi, novel Samrat Munshi Premchandra, film actress Sridevi, 40 elephants, and Agrasen Maharaj on a grain of rice. Apart from this, the work of writing the entire Gayatri Mantra twice, writing Ram Ram 105 times, and writing the national anthem was also done. In the seventh part of the postcard, you have engraved the name of Ram 10800 times and written Namokar Mantra twice, and all other types of pictures have been engraved by you. Similarly, on gram dal, you wrote the picture of the famous filmmaker late Rajkumar ji, on sago you wrote the names of five politicians, on tamarind seeds you wrote the name of Ram 625 times. Many painting works on mango kernels, making faces on it and hundreds of other amazing artworks have been created by you. You have made a 55 mm statue of Kali Mata of Kolkata, which was installed in the temple of Kali Mata near the Kunda River. In the year 2015, you got only a 7 mm size idol of Ganesha. You registered your name in the Golden Book of Records by making an exquisite and playable flute of 40 mm size and 8 mm wide, 8 mm long and half an mm thick chess set. You have also made the world’s smallest kite only seven millimetres in size. Due to this special skill of yours, you have been awarded hundreds of honours by various institutions and personalities.