Guj students attempt world record with 4.2km paint

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Guj students attempt world record with 4.2 km painting on Gandhi Jayanti

Fri, Oct 2 09:15 PM
Vadodara, Oct.2 (ANI): Around 7,500 students in Vadodara city of Gujarat, made a 4.2 kilometres long painting to enter the Guinness Book of World Records on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's 140th birth anniversary on Friday.

The painting highlights and draws public attention on traffic rules and road mannerism as its theme.Municipal school students along with other school students, fine arts students and around 500 specially-abled students participated in the event organised to mark the 140th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

"Today more than 7500 students from various schools, from fine arts, and from universities are making longest painting that would be recorded in the Guinness book of world records. This 4.2 kilometres long painting and it is made by acrylic colours on canvas. The message of painting is to spread awareness on traffic rules and road manners. The enthusiasm of students is great and it seems some kind of celebration is happening here," said Sheetal, a Fine Arts student.


Traffic situation in Vadodara in 2020, future transportation system, traffic jams, ideal traffic junction and impact of poor traffic system were some of the scenes created in the painting as part of the theme.
The organisers claim that the painting would break eleven other records including one of the longest paintings, which has been previously held by a non-governmental organisation of Philippines.

Organisers claimed that it would be recorded as longest painting in Guinness Book of World Records.
It took about three hours to complete the painting.
Officials of Guinness Book of World Records were present on this occasion.
(ANI)

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Google pays tribute to Mahatma Gandhi

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October 3, 2009 - 2:20AM
Internet search giant Google paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on Friday on the 140th anniversary of his birth, replacing the 'G' in its colourful logo with a picture of the Indian independence hero.


Clicking on the logo takes a reader to links in the Google search engine to websites about Gandhi, who was born Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi on October 2, 1869 and was assassinated on January 30, 1948.


Google frequently changes the colourful logo on its famously sparse home page to mark holidays, anniversaries or significant events.
It added flying saucers last month to pay homage to British science fiction writer H.G. Wells, author of the 1898 classic, "The War of the Worlds."
 
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