Author: ABR Team

Sri Sathya Sai Media Centre (a Unit of Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust), Sri Sathya Sai District, Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh, India set a record for chanting Sri Rudra Mantra by the maximum number of people. A total of 13,000 people from more than 83 countries chanted 1,18,000 Sri Rudra Mantra from February 14 to February 25, 2025. This sacred initiative combined traditional rituals with modern technology, as a dedicated web app developed by Sri Sathya Sai Media Centre, tracked and registered participants globally, ensuring continuous recitation beyond the Yajna timings, as confirmed on February 25, 2025.

Jain (Deemed-to-be University), Kochi, India and Manorama Online set a record for maximum number of participants witnessing an anti-drug awareness drone show at a university campus. A total of 9,219 participants witnessed the drone show held at the university campus. The initiative was aimed to emphasize the dangers of drugs and promote a drug-free lifestyle among students and the community, as confirmed on March 26, 2025.

Tarasha Garg (born on August 10, 2017) of Delhi, India, set a record for being the fastest to identify and name 50 inventors with their inventions. She identified and named 50 inventors with their inventions in 1 minute, 14 seconds and 33 milliseconds by viewing the images of the inventors on a laptop screen, at the age of 7 years, 6 months and 4 days, as confirmed on February 14, 2025.

Sun Pharma Laboratories Ltd, Maharashtra, India, set a record for ‘Maximum Doctors Raised Diabetes Awareness through Social Media and Radio Campaign’. A total of 275 doctors created awareness on diabetes by participating in various radio awareness campaigns as well as videos were posted on Facebook. The goal of the campaign was to raise awareness about diabetes, its prevention, and the lifestyle changes required to manage it, as confirmed on March 25, 2025.

Dr. Sheeba Lourdhes of Tamil Nadu, India, set a record for the maximum multilingual books released by an author to provide aid to cancer patients. She published a total of 250 books in 20 languages including Spanish, Tamil, Swedish, French, Italian, Bengali, Tamil, Norwegian, Greek, Portuguese, Malay, Turkish, Chinese, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, Sinhala, Hindi, Gujarati and English.  These books were written between April 2024 to November 2024, as confirmed on March 1, 2025.

Ayush Krishna V.S. (born on April 23, 2014) of Kerala, India, set a record for authoring the maximum number of acrostic poems. In an acrostic poem, the first letter of each line is combined to form a meaningful word when read vertically. He authored 32 acrostic poems in English and published a book in January 2025 by Akapulko Publications titled ‘Wings of Poetry’ (ISBN: 978-93-93252-39-5), at the age of 10 years, 8 months and 26 days, as confirmed on February 19, 2025.

Joy Paulose (born on May 25, 1969) of Kerala, India, is titled as ‘Grand Master’ for holding the stocks of 1,736 listed companies as per his statement of holding dated October 18, 2022, as confirmed on January 31, 2025.

Y. Ilamaran (born on June 16, 2022) of Tamil Nadu, India, set a record for solving the maximum number of wooden puzzles. He solved 30 different types of wooden puzzles (consisting of 335 pieces) in 28 minutes and 46 seconds, at the age of 2 years, 6 months and 9 days, as confirmed on January 28, 2025.

Kumaran Thanikasalam (born on July 9, 2003) of Tamil Nadu, India, is titled as ‘Grand Master’ for manually calculating the square root of a random eight-digit number (60750397) on paper and deriving the answer with 99.86 percent accuracy in 43 seconds and 31 milliseconds, as confirmed on December 10, 2024.

Abishitha Raj A. S. (born on March 21, 2020) of Kerala, India, is titled as ‘Grand Master’ for reciting the names of 44 rivers of Kerala in 22.28 seconds, at the age of 4 years and 10 months, as confirmed on February 7, 2025.