Author: Asia Book of Records Team

Kalesh Ponnappan (born on August 23, 1983) of Kerala, India, set a record for drawing the maximum number of images of an elephant on a singleA-3 sheet. He drew 303 images of an elephant on a single A-3 size sheet using black colour ballpoint pen and brush pens, as confirmed on May 5, 2021.

Dr. Lal Tanwani (born on October 16, 1970) of Maharashtra, India, is titled as ‘Grand Master’ for receiving 11 educational degrees. He qualified B. Com. in 1991, M.com (Finance) in 1993, B.Ed in 1995, M.Com (Cost Accounts) in 1997, M.A. (Economics) in 2002, M. Phil (Commerce) in 2009, Ph.D. (Commerce) and MBA (Finance) in 2017, Advanced Diploma in Value Education in 2018, D. Litt in 2018 and Ph.D. (Management) in 2019, as confirmed on May 7, 2021.

Christy V. George (born on October 6, 1991) of Kerala, India, set a record for making the maximum number of sand portraits of Indian Prime Ministers on an illuminated glass box. He made sand portraits of all the 15 Prime Ministers of India including Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Narendra Modi in 53 minutes and 25 seconds, using sand and an illuminated glass box measuring 25 inches x 14 inches, as confirmed on May 25, 2021.

Simran (born on October 28, 1995) of Haryana, India, is titled as ‘Grand Master’ for repeating the Hindi tongue twister ‘Mar Hum Bhi Gaye, Marham Ke Liye, Marham Na Mila, Hum Dum Se Gye, Humdum Ke Liya, Humdum Na Mila’ for 176 times non-stop in 13 minutes, as confirmed on May 27, 2021.

Pushpraj Singh Rajawat (born on August 8, 1989) of Madhya Pradesh, India, is titled as ‘Grand Master’ for being a multilinguist with multiple black belts in Martial Arts. He completed six diplomas in five languages namely Urdu, Persian, Arabic, German, Pashto and one sign language from October 10, 2017 to October 19, 2020 and achieved four black belts in KAI Shodan, Kickboxing, Karate and Taekwondo from January 22, 2018 to October 7, 2019, as confirmed on April 2, 2021.

Hanishka Mishra (born on March 28, 2015) of Karnataka, India set a record for reading the maximum number of kids story books in 30 minutes. She read 21 story books in 30 minutes at the age of 6 years, 1 month and 10 days, as confirmed on May 12, 2021.

Anand Borkar (born on September 19, 1998) of Madhya Pradesh, India, set a record for podcasting the maximum number of episodes of a horror story. He podcasted 338 episodes of a horror story ‘Megh Ek Shraap’ on pocket FM from May 30, 2020 to April 7, 2021. The total runtime of all episodes is 77 hours and 30 minutes, as confirmed on May 12, 2021.

Sanjoy Das (born on February 14, 1974) of West Bengal, India, is titled as ‘Grand Master’ for walking a long distance in a single day being a quadragenarian. He walked 84.14 km (1,13,109 steps) from Baguiati to Daluigacha and back to Dakshinpara in 21 hours and 51 minutes. He started walking at 12.10 am on February 14, 2021 and stopped at 10.01 pm on February 14, 2021, as confirmed on May 22, 2021.

Amit Nayak Insan (born on March 3, 1993) of Rajasthan, India, set a record for posting the maximum number of tweets on Twitter Online Message Service in a minute. He tweeted 22 times in one minute on April 29, 2021 from 9:45 pm to 9:46 pm, as confirmed on May 4, 2021.

Lagmi V.K. (born on November 28, 1986) of Kerala, India, is titled as ‘Grand Master’ for drawing several coloured portraits of freedom fighters on feathers. She drew six coloured portraits of freedom fighters on six white feathers using acrylic paint and painting brushes (000 and 001 point), as confirmed on April 22, 2021.