Indian sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik puts the finishing touches to his sand sculpture of a rupee coin in front of the Hindu Goddess Lakshmi on the beach at Puri, some 65kms from Bhubaneswar on August 22, 2013. India's finance minister P. Chidambaram said that intense selling pressure on the rupee was exaggerated and that the currency market "panic" was unnecessary. The rupee, which has hit record lows for five straight trading days, slumped to 65.56 to the US dollar as uncertainty about the future of the US stimulus programme added to growing fears about the state of the Indian economy. TOPSHOTS/AFP PHOTO/STR