Russian artist's wooden heart sculpture falsely linked to Hindu god Krishna

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Russian artist's wooden heart sculpture falsely linked to Hindu god Krishna
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🇮🇳 Social media users in India have shared a photo with a false claim it shows a wooden sculpture that contains the 'still beating heart' of the Hindu god Krishna The heart sculpture was in fact made by a Russian artist and is kept in a Paris art gallery

A photo has been shared thousands of times alongside the false claim it shows a heart-shaped wooden sculpture"containing the live, beating heart" of the Hindu god Krishna which is kept in a temple in eastern India. But the sculpture was in fact created by Russian artist Dimitri Tsykalov in 2001, who told AFP his artwork -- part of an installation called Anatomy -- is kept in a Paris art gallery.

"His heart is still safe, which lies inside the wooden statue of Lord Jagannath and beats the same way. Very few people know this," the Hindi-language tweet reads in part. Both

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