Author: Asia Book of Records Team

Vivek Dahiya (born on July 14, 1997) of Delhi, India, set a record for walking the maximum distance in a single day. He covered 87.57 km by walking 1,24,689 steps nonstop in Delhi for 20 hours and 55 minutes. He started walking at 4:53 pm on February 13, 2021 and stopped at 12:58 pm on February 14, 2021, as confirmed on February 18, 2021.

Bipul Kumar Borah (born on February 17, 1975) of Assam, India, set a record for making a seven layered wooden altar. He made a wooden altar with the local wood Thuja. It is a seven layered asana (a throne-like platform) and a total of 60 idols are attached to it. Out of these 60, four are turtle shaped, 28 are elephant shaped and another 28 are Narasingha (lion) shaped. Flowers and creepers are engraved on every layer, as confirmed on February 19, 2021.

Aniruddha Sandip Khedekar (born on July 9, 1997) of Maharashtra, India, set a record for making the smallest underwater rangoli of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj (measuring 4 cm × 4 cm). He made a portrait of Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj inside a stainless dish and later spread coconut oil on the bottom surface of the dish. Thereafter, he coloured the portrait with rangoli colours and gently poured water into the dish, as confirmed on March 17, 2021.

Noorjahan K. R. (born on August 22, 2001) of Kerala, India, is titled as ‘Grand Master’ for making mandala art designs on a single A3 sheet. She made 42 beautiful mandala art designs on a single A3 sheet, as confirmed on February 26, 2021.

Logash Kanniyappan (born on November 25, 2004) of Tamil Nadu, India, set a record for performing the maximum number of Diamond push- ups in 30 seconds. He performed 54 Diamond push -ups in 30 seconds, as confirmed on March 12, 2021.

Harish Kumar Phulwari (born on October 25, 1982) of Rajasthan, India, set a record for making the maximum number of portraits on cowry shells. He made 114 portraits of famous Indian personalities, including Gandhiji, B.R. Ambedkar, Chanakya, Akbar, Kabir, Surdas, APJ Abdul Kalam and Narendra Modi on 114 cowry shells, as confirmed on November 23, 2020.

Parvathy Sankar (born on January 9, 1996) of Kerala, India, set a record for making the biggest acrylic wall art painting depicting Kathakali mudra. She made a beautiful painting (measuring 250 cm in height and 182 cm in width) of Kathakali dance form on the wall using acrylic colours, as confirmed on February 22, 2021.

Avinash. D. G. (born on October 28, 1987) of Kerala, India (currently residing in Kuwait), set a record for performing the maximum number of Diamond push-ups in 30 seconds. He performed 47 Diamond push-ups in 30 seconds, as confirmed on February 23, 2021.

Divyanshu Didwania (born on August 31, 2004) of Rajasthan, India, is titled as ‘Grand Master’ for singing Hindi songs with reverse words and lyrics. He sang 30 Hindi Movie songs with reverse lyrics and words and was able to convert the words of lyrics of any song in reverse order, at the young age of 16 years and 4 months, as confirmed on January 22, 2021.

Micro Labs Limited, Karnataka, India, set a record for organising and executing the biggest virtual brand launch in the Pharmaceutical industry, where a total of 11,757 participants launched a diabetic drug ‘ZUCAPRIDE’ virtually, on December 16, 2020.