Varanasi:

City-based author and film-maker Jagdeesh Pillai claims to have made a 60 x 45.30 ft paper envelope to carry the message of ‘Benefits of Yoga’ to get the city registered with the Guinness Book of World Records.

The envelope was made in 10 days by Pillai with help of a yoga trainer, social worker and owner of printing press. It was put on display at the committee hall in the Diesel Locomotive Works (DLW) on the occasion of second International Day of Yoga on Tuesday.

Pillai said that he had started working on the envelope from June 12 after prior intimation to world record officials at London. The main purpose of the envelope is to popularize yoga which has now become a global entity. The envelope is made of brown paper joined by glue and is 18.29 metres long (60 ft) and 13.80 metres wide.

Current record for largest envelope was set by Ajmal Khan Tibbiya College of Aligarh Muslim University on April 3, 2013 by making an envelope measuring 58 ft and 7.15 inch x 42 ft and 11.75 inch. The envelop has a photograph of PM in Yoga pose along with official logo of Yoga Day and states a hundred advantages of Yoga. “I will send the video recording and proof along with photographs to Guinness world record office in London within a couple of days,” he said.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News Home> City> Varanasi / TNN / June 22nd, 2016