Indian Records

THE FIRST MEMORY COMIC
Category - PRINT AND PUBLICATION

posted on 01-04-2010 World’s First Memory Comic is the first of its kind in the world where Neerja, the author has combined the ancient wisdom and modern science to create a comic, which can help a student to learn the memory technique, in a result they can memorize the entire dictionary
THE SMALLEST MANUSCRIPT
Category - PRINT AND PUBLICATION

posted on 01-04-2010 Ramchandra Karunakar (born on May 10, 1983) of Hardoi (Uttar Pradesh) has made smallest religious book, “Dhammapadam” of 20mm X 10mm X 10mm size. The total pages of the book are 104. He has also written this book in three types : opposite alphabet volume of 40mm X 15mm X 27mm size, whole alphabet volume of 29.7cm X 21cm
FIRST INDIAN TO WIN BOOKER PRIZE
Category - PRINT AND PUBLICATION

posted on 01-04-2010 Arundhati Roy (born on November 24, 1961) won the Booker prize for her brilliant and poetic novel “The God of Small Things” in the year 1997 making her the first Indian to receive the prestigious award.
EXPERT IN MIRROR WRITING
Category - PRINT AND PUBLICATION

posted on 01-04-2010 Piyush Dadriwala of Dadri (Uttar Pradesh) has written holy book “The Bhagwat Geeta” in mirror writing with 318,900 backward words
THE YOUNGEST AUTHOR ON ASTROLOGY
Category - PRINT AND PUBLICATION

posted on 01-04-2010 Mr. Praveen Kochar (born on December 28, 1983) of Faridabad ( Harayana) became the youngest author at the age of 22 yrs 8 months on the subject of Astrology by launching his first book in Hindi- “Jyotish Ek Samadhan” on August 28, 2006.
FIRST INDIAN TO WIN BEST OF BOOKERS
Category - PRINT AND PUBLICATION

posted on 01-04-2010 Midnight’s Children by Sir Salman Rushdie won the “Best of the Booker prize” based on an online poll on July 10, 2008. The Best of the Booker is a special prize awarded in commemoration of the Booker Prize’s 40th anniversary. In 1993, the Booker of Bookers Prize was awarded to Salman Rushdie for Midnight’s Children (the 1981 winner), as the best novel to win the award in the first 25 years of its existence
A VERSATILE CARTOONIST
Category - CREATIVITY

posted on 01-04-2010 B.V Panduranga Rao (born on September 20, 1944) of Bangalore (Karnataka) got his cartoons recognized 25 times at International level in cartoon contest, festivals and exhibitions. He first time participated in 1996 at the international cartoon contest held in Korea. He started his cartooning career in 1964 and also conducted 33 one man cartoon show and won 12 prizes at state as well as national level.
THE BIRTH OF FIRST CARTOON
Category - CREATIVITY

posted on 01-04-2010 Pran Kumar Sharma (born on August 15, 1938) of Pakistan, now moved to Gwalior (India) created a comic character. Chacha Chaudhary. It is the most popular Indian comic. This has more than 10 million readers in newspapers and comic books in ten languages. Chacha Chaudhary was created in 1969 and is the first Indian comic character to be made into a TV serial (in 2002).
FIRST ON LINE ANIMATED HUMOUR
Category - CREATIVITY

posted on 01-04-2010 Bijan Samaddar and Aditya Dubey, two animation professional from Ghazidabad (Uttar Pradesh) had started the site praaji.com in a spring of 2004, motivated by a western site joecartoon.com, they thought to develop a site which will be completely animated humour. In a small room in Surya Nagar, Ghaziabad they started their production. After two years with lots of research and development they launched the site for public viewing. Their aim is to bring smile on the face of the visitors.
THE LONGEST RUNNING
Category - CREATIVITY

posted on 01-04-2010 Vasantha Hosabettu (born on 21 May 1965) of Bangalore (Karnataka) wrote a longest running weekly column called Wa Re Wah…! which was written only about cartooning, cartoonist and cartoon. It was published in Kannada Prabha, Kannada Daily from the New Indian Express Group. This column appeared without a break between December 1, 2004 to February 11, 2009, on every Wednesday. These columns have also come out into two books, “Wa Re Wah…!” and “Munduvarida Wa Re Wah…!” (collection of 101 columns each) published by Sadana Prakashana- Bangalore.