A massive effort to enter the Guinness

TIRUPUR: A joint effort by members of various Rotary Clubs under Rotary District 3202 and students to create twin world records has paid dividends.

Their designs and painting of socially relevant logos on giant-sized fabrics by using the fingers to create patterns and also just the finger tips to do so, instead of a brush, has been acknowledged by Asian Records Academy as the largest such painting in Asia.

The Rotarians and the students are now awaiting a similar ratification from the Guinness Book of World Records.

The full-finger painting was done on a 4,096-square metre fabric and the finger-tip painting on a 552-square metre fabric.

The current world record for painting with finger tip is for the one on a 458.2 sq.mt. surface, attempted at Hong Kong, said B. Dhanasekaran, president of Rotary Club of Tirupur Pride and lead coordinator of the event.

In the other category, the present world record was made on an expanse of 3,900 sq. m in India four years ago, he said.

A total of 2,500 people, including Rotarians, students from AVP Trust National Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Kongu Matriculation Higher Secondary School and AVP College of Arts and Science were involved in the effort organised on the AVP Trust National Matriculation School ground here.