Author: ABR Team

Acharya Dr. Nilima Deshpande, founder of Ishavasya Gurukulam in Pune, Maharashtra, India, set the record for the ‘Longest Continuous Kathak Dance Relay’. A total of 24 participants aged from 13 to 58 performed a non-stop dance relay for 24 hours featuring 240 Abhang/Bhaktigeet dedicated to Lord Vitthal under her guidance. This uninterrupted relay of devotional Kathak performances, rooted in the Bhakti tradition, took place on Ashadhi Ekadashi on July 16, 2024 at midnight 12:00 am and ended on July 17, 2024 at midnight 12:00 am, at Shree Sant Seva Sangh Sadhana Kendra, Umbare, Bhor, Pune, when the Vitthal Wari reached…

Aarya S. Gadiya (born on June 17, 2020) of Karnataka, India, set a record for deadlifting the maximum weight. She lifted 30 kg weight (5 kg plates on both sides of a 20 kg barbell) in the deadlift category for 3 seconds, at the age of 4 years and 7 days, as confirmed on June 27, 2024.

Gohil Mahavirsinh Vijaysinh (born on June 20, 1997) of Gujarat, India, set a record for being the fastest to swim one lap underwater in one breath with hands and feet tied. He covered one lap of a swimming pool, measuring 22.4 metres in length (73.49 feet), in 40 seconds while swimming underwater in one breath with hands and feet tied, as confirmed on June 17, 2024.

Ayaan Jain (born on July 10, 2019) of Punjab, India, set a record for being the fastest to verbally answer 50 single and double-digit addition sums. He verbally answered 50 single and double-digit addition sums in 5 minutes and 28 seconds, using the Abacus technique, at the age of 4 years, 11 months and 8 days, as confirmed on June 18, 2024.

Smit Choudhary (born on February 2, 2017) of Madhya Pradesh, India, set a record for using the maximum number of 3 x 3 Rubik’s Cubes to make a mosaic art portrait of Lord Parshuram. He used 360 Rubik’s Cubes to make a large mosaic art portrait of Lord Parshuram (measuring 45 inches x 40 inches), at the age of 7 years, 3 months and 15 days, as confirmed on June 13, 2024.

Kavir Raksha Shisav (born on April 28, 2021) of Maharashtra, India, is titled as ‘Grand Master’ for riding a bicycle without support wheels, and covering a distance of 1.66 km in 6 minutes and 48 seconds, at the age of 2 years and 11 months, as confirmed on May 29, 2024.

MD Nasim Raza Khan (born on July 24, 1987) of Uttar Pradesh, India, set a record for having the oldest pre-independence central legislative assembly Urdu voter list. He has in his possession a 118-year-old central legislative assembly Urdu voter list (Tehsil – Zamania, District – Ghazipur) on paper (measuring 50.5 cm in length x 33 cm in width) pertaining to the years 1906-07 AD to 1945, as confirmed on May 20, 2024.

OPPO Mobiles India Pvt. Ltd. of Haryana, India, set a record for the Most Number of AI Avatars Created in a Day on a Smartphone. They launched a campaign where users shared photos, and 15 representatives created a total of 13,000 unique avatars in 7 hours 30 minutes using OPPO Reno12 Pro phones in Gurugram, Haryana, as confirmed on July 16, 2024.

Habtamu Franke, an Ethiopia-born personal trainer, nutritionist, and mental coach, currently living in the Netherlands, set a record for performing the maximum burpees in an hour. He performed a whopping number of 1,010 chest to ground burpees in an hour, as confirmed on March 15, 2024.

Logan Paul of USA and KSI of UK (real name Olajide Olatunji) set a record for smashing a supersized piñata shaped bottle in Mexico City. The gigantic PRIME piñata, which cost over $1 million to make, had a height of 33.66 metres (110.4 feet) and width of 10.69 metres (35 feet), was both the largest piñata and largest suspended piñata ever, as confirmed on March 15, 2024.