Kathak dancer Soni Chaurasia enters Guinness: India in Guinness World Records

April 10, 2016

New Delhi, Apr 10: Everybody wants to make and break records! The Guinness Book of World Records which gathers world records from around the world has also made a record of being the most stolen book from the public libraries.

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On April 9, 2016, Kathak dancer Soni Chaurasia broke the world record of longest dance marathon with her non-stop dance performance. Chaurasia danced continuously for 124 hours and broke the five-year-old previous record set by Kalamandalam Hemalatha of Kerala in the year 2011. When Soni entered the 123rd hour of her performance, the crowd started cheering for her to complete the last hour and enter the Guinness World Records.

Let's look at some of the Indians who have bagged a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. Read on, you would not like to miss this:

Longest flute

The world's longest flute is 11 feet and 11 inches and has been made by Bharat Sinh Parmar, Charunsudan Atri Jay Bhayani, and five Navtanpuri Dham. The flute was unveiled on December 25 in the year 2014, and was used to play the Indian national anthem for the first time.

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Largest Ruby

Weighing 21,955 grams and measuring 12.20 x 6.49 x 5.51 inches, the largest ruby belongs to an Indian named Rajiv Golcha from Bengaluru. The ruby has been named 'The King Ruby' and is held in the Prestige Gems & Jewels showroom in India.

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Largest Turban

Avtar Singh Mauni, a 61-year-old resident of Patiala, holds the record for the longest turban in the world. When unwrapped, the turban stretches to 645 meters. It weighs around 100 pounds. Avtar Singh started with 151 meters and has been religiously adding on to his turban for last 16 years and now, it takes him more than six hours to wrap it again.

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Shortest Woman

Jyoti Amge is named in the Guinness World Records for being the shortest woman alive. On her 18th birthday in 2011, she was officially declared the shortest woman on earth. Jyoti Amge is 2 feet and 0.6 inches tall.

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Most Recorded Artist

Singer Asha Bhosle was acknowledged as the world's most recorded artist in the music industry by the Guinness World Records in the year 2011. Starting in the year 1948 with Hansraj Behl's Chunariya, Bhosle has sung over 12,000 songs till date.

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Shortest Cow

Measuring 61.1 cm (6-year-old then) from the hoof to the withers and weighing a mere 40 kg, Manikyam is the shortest cow on the planet -- significantly shorter than the previous record holder Blaze (from USA), who was 69.07 cm tall. This Kerala cow is even shorter than some of the dogs.

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Longest Moustache

60-year-old Ram Singh Chauhan was placed in the Guinness World Records for having the longest moustache in the World. His moustache is 14 feet long. Chauhan has been growing his moustache since the early 70's and calls it his most-prized possession. He has spent more than 30 years growing it and spends around two hours, every day, grooming it.

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March 19,2020

New Delhi, Mar 19: Days after being diagnosed with COVID-19, 'Oblivion' actor Olga Kurylenko said that she is better as her fever has now gone.

The 40-year-old actor took to Instagram to share the health update with a picture of herself wearing a face mask.

"Hello everyone! I'm feeling better today. My fever is gone! I hear people can't figure out where I currently am. I'm in London!," she wrote in the caption.

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"How do I know it's coronavirus and not just a flu? I did a test for coronavirus which came back positive. What are the medicines that doctors prescribed as treatment? NONE!" she wrote.

"I was told to take paracetamol in case my fever was too high and if I was in too much pain. However, I do take vitamins and supplements. Please note that these vitamins do NOT cure coronavirus but only help the immune system be stronger in order to fight!" Kurylenko added.

She also shared a detailed list of medicines that she is taking to deal with the condition.

The 'Oblivion' actor joined the growing list of entertainment figures who have contracted the highly contagious virus on Monday.

Other Hollywood personalities who were earlier diagnosed with COVID-19 are superstar couple Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson. The celebrity couple has been discharged from the hospital and are under quarantine at their home.

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January 14,2020

Indore, Jan 14: Yoga guru Ramdev has said that Deepika Padukone should hire persons like him for offering correct advice, days after the actress had visited Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi following the violence at the campus earlier this month.

"Deepika Padukone needs to study about political, social and cultural issues. She should understand more about our country. Only after gaining knowledge, she should take decisions. I feel she should have persons like Swami Ramdev for correct advice," Ramdev said at an event here on Monday.

On January 7, Padukone joined the protest at JNU after a masked mob entered the varsity campus and attacked the students and teachers with sticks and rods on January 5.

Several BJP leaders questioned the support extended by Padukone. On the other hand, the Congress threw their weight behind the actress for her stand.

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February 3,2020

Feb 3: Actor-cum-activist Swara Bhaskar on Sunday targetted the Central government over granting Padma Shri to Pakistan-origin singer Adnan Sami who became an Indian citizen in 2016.

Addressing "Save the Constitution, Save the Country" rally here in Madhya Pradesh, Bhaskar said that passing the new citizenship amendment act tantamount to "betrayal" of the Constitution.

Sami, born in London to a Pakistani Air force veteran, applied for Indian citizenship in 2015 and became a citizen of the country in January 2016.

He was one of the 118 people chosen for the Padma Shri awards by the Centre last month.

"The legal process to grant citizenship to refugees and arrest infiltrators already exists in India. You (the government) have granted Indian citizenship to Adnan Sami and now selected him for Padma Shri through that process. (If this is the case) What is the need and justification for the Citizenship Amendment Act?" Bhaskar asked.

"On the one hand you abuse us (anti-CAA protesters), cane-charge us, slap us, hurl teargas shells at us and on the other hand you award Padma Shri to a Pakistani," she said

Bhaskar said the government labels some people as the members of "tukde-tukde gang" and anti-nationals" as per its convenience.

"Supporters of the CAA and the NRC keep harping about the so-called infiltrators having entered our country. If that is the case then why are we unable to see these intruders?" she asked.

"The problem is that they have intruded into the minds of the government and the ruling party," she said.

Bhaskar said the government seems to have "fallen in love with Pakistan".

"It sees Pakistan everywhere. My devout grandmother doesn't chant Hanuman Chalisa as often as this government keeps chanting the Pakistan mantra," she said.

Without naming the RSS, the actor said, "Sitting in Nagpur, these people are spreading politics of hatred".

Bhaskar said Pakistan chose to become a religious nation after the Partition in 1947 unlike India which opted to become a "secular republic where one's religion has nothing to do with citizenship".

"(Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali) Jinnah died a long ago, but his admirers want to divide the country again in the name of a religion," Bhaskar said.

She criticised BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya for his controversial remarks about the 'presence' of Bangladeshi infiltrators in Indore, after some labourers were found eating poha and not rotis.

"If poha is Bangladeshi cuisine, then Kailash Vijayvariya, who grew up eating poha (in Indore), should be required to show his Indian citizenship papers," she demanded.

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