Singing India’s National Anthem to set world record
January 24, 2012: Bollywood playback singers Roopkumar and Sonali Rathod alongwith
a host of celebrities and thousands of people would lead a record-breaking tribute
to 100 years of India’s National Anthem on January 25 in Aurangabad.
Tushar
Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson, will join them in their attempt to create a Guinness
world record for the maximum number of people in any country singing their national
anthem in unison.
An independent adjudicator from Guinness World Records will
be present at the venue at Divisional Sports Complex at Garkheda, Aurangabad.
Roopkumar
Rathod said, “singing ‘Jana Gana Mana’ to set a world record is a befitting and rousing
way to commemorate one hundred years of the National Anthem. It will be our small
tribute to the great composition of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore.”
On December
27, 2011, Jana Gana Mana had completed 100 years after being first sung at the Calcutta
Session of the Indian National Congress on that day in 1911.
It was declared
the Indian National Anthem by the Constituent Assembly on January 24, 1950.