Students of a Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) in Odisha set a Guinness world record for the ‘largest human sentence’.
They arranged themselves into a massive human formation reading “WE URGE FOR WORLD PEACE”.
They also created a second world record – for the ‘most simultaneous high-fives’. Total of 15,225 students took part in making the human sentence.
Guinness World Records official Fortuna Lisa Burke certified it as a new world record for the ‘Largest human sentence’. The previous record on this feat was made in Dubai by 6,958 people.
A total of 25,151 students participated in the second record, as certified by the Guinness World Records. Previous record for ‘Most simultaneous high-fives’ involved 7,238 people in Canada.
Over 25,000 students of KISS also formed a 30-km-long human chain encircling the city of Bhubaneswar.
Tribal students of the institute stood hand-in-hand along all major roads of the city, stretching over 30 kms, forming the chain which, the statement claimed, the longest human chain in the world by indigenous people.
Theme of the event, held in partnership with UNFPA, was ‘Joining hands against terrorism – Urge for world peace’.
