Record-Breakers from Northeast India: Guinness World Record Holders
Assam made history on April 13, 2023, by setting a new Guinness World Record with over 11,000 dancers and drummers performing Bihu dance and playing dhol in a single venue.
Assam
On the same day, Assam also broke another record with around 3,000 drummers playing dhol, creating the largest live group performance of the instrument.
Assam
Assam
Guinness World Records recognized the compilation of over 42 lakh essays on the brave Ahom General Lachit Borphukan on March 9, 2023, as the "Largest Online Photo Album of Handwritten Notes."
Arunachal Pradesh
Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh entered the Guinness Book of World Records on November 20, 2022, by forming the largest helmet sentence to highlight the importance of road safety, especially in the mountains.
Sikkim
Pawan Chamling, former Chief Minister of Sikkim, made it to the World Book of Records for being the longest-serving Chief Minister of any Indian State.
Manipur
On January 24, 2022, Thounaojam Niranjoy Singh from Manipur created a new Guinness World Record for the most push-ups on his fingertips in one minute.
Meghalaya made a new entry in the Guinness Book of World Records in 2013, when 7,951 percussionists beat drums to mark the beginning of the five-day annual Autumn Festival.
Meghalaya
Tripura
In 2011, Sourabhee Debbarma, the first female Indian Idol winner from Tripura, broke the Guinness World Record by singing a song hanging upside down.
Nagaland was featured in the Guinness World Record for the tallest paddy plant in the world, recorded on October 1, 1998.
Nagaland
Mizoram
Mizoram set a Guinness World Record in 2010 for the largest bamboo dance, with 10,736 people dancing at the Aizawl Rifles Ground and along the streets of Aizawl during the annual Chapchar Kut festival.