Author: Asia Book of Records Team

E. Selvan (born on October 8, 1962) of Tamil Nadu, India, along with the employees of E. Selvan Silks and Sarees, created a handloom silk saree titled ‘Dawn and Dusk’ with use of punched hooks(2,140) and punched design cards (2,45,780), on September 9, 2013.

Rakesh Vaid (born on September 7, 1953) of New Delhi, India, has a collection of  1,110 photo frame key rings on  actor Amitabh Bachchan, as on January 13, 2014.

Mayank Sahu (born on April 25, 1997) of  Maharashtra, India, correctly recognized a total of 82 random musical notations in one minute, on March 19, 2013. The notations were rendered to him by an electronic synthesizer.

Ram Kogata (born on December 10, 1964) and Lalita Kogata (born on July 1, 1965) of Udaipur, India, has the biggest collection (10,350) of handmade idols and paintings of the Hindu deity Ganesha, as on June 7, 2013. The idols are made of various materials like marbles, stones , wood etc and the paintings are abstract, canvas itching, scratch art etc.

Ebin Rec George (born on February 2, 1992) of Dubai, UAE, played the most number of musical instruments (27) in one hour,  from 8:30 pm to 9:30 pm, at  a concert titled ‘Nothing is impossible’, on February 2, 2013, at SWC auditorium, Sharjah, UAE.

Ganesh Bora (born on  January 17, 1984) of Assam, India, had created the biggest bow of height 12.5ft and weight 30kg. The arrow of the set is 4.5ft long and can be shot with the bow.

Harish Kumar (born on April 22, 1971) of Gujarat, India, had completed a solo all-India motor expedition in the fastest time (29 days 6 hr 20 min) in an unmodified car despite of an amputated right hand. He started his journey from Gandhinagar, Gujarat (India) at 8.40 am on April 22,2012, and returned at 3.00 pm on May 21,2012, having covered a total distance of 15,963 km across 28 states and seven union territories of India.

Jagjot Singh Rubal (born on December 8, 1989) of Punjab, India, created 100 portraits of prominent Bollywood personalities on giant canvas of dimension 7ft x 8ft, on October 11, 2013.

Ranjit Bajaj (born on December 6, 1978) of Chandigarh, India,  performed highest altitude swimming by swimming in the Pumori glacier lake for 10 seconds, on October 18, 2011. Pumori Lake is situated at an altitude of 5,300m, 8km west of Mount Everest, with temperature falling down to –45C.

Shaikh Afroz Mushtak (born on November 29, 1988) of Maharashtra, India, created the smallest electric bike weighing 4.7kg with the length of 26.5cm, height of 28cm, width  of 22cm and load carrying capacity of 80kg, on November 22, 2013. The operational speed of bike is 10 to 15 km/h.