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Just like girl next door and more
SHE IS like the kid next door who watches TV, eats lots of toffees, read comics and ?Tom and Jerry? on the Cartoon Network is her favourite channel. She also has fights with her younger brother who he is fed up with her continuous singing. But that?s what makes her different from the average girl next door.
SHE IS like the kid next door who watches TV, eats lots of toffees, read comics and ‘Tom and Jerry’ on the Cartoon Network is her favourite channel. She also has fights with her younger brother who he is fed up with her continuous singing. But that’s what makes her different from the average girl next door.
Nine-year-old Anushka Singhal has utilised her singing talent to earn a name by continuously singing for a little more than 18 hours to break the earlier record by Venkatesh of Chennai (17 hours) as per the Limca Book of Records.
“Mujhe jo toffee mili thee woh gini, fridge main rakhi aur so gayi” (I counted the toffees I had received, kept them in the refrigerator and went to sleep), was all she said - with innocence and excitement at the media attention written all over her face – to a question what she did after coming home last night.
At the Narsumal Dharamshala Hall yesterday, Anushka sang till 11.30 pm to earn her first feather. Immediately after it, local political leaders, including Minister Sajjan Singh Verma, Congress City unit chief Pramod Tandon and BJP MLA Mahendra Hardia and other prominent persons of the city held a small felicitation for her.
Encouraged by her parents, grandmother and a large number of relatives and well wishers through out the day, the young girl sang 75 songs, including bhajans and film and patriotic songs (repeating the cycle every five hours) from 5 am onwards.
The Limca Book of Records allows five breaks of 15 minutes duration for such programmes but Anushka took only one break for lunch (5-8 min) and two short breaks of 2-3 minutes.
But surprisingly, the child sounded normal even after the whole day of singing till late last night. “Only thing my shoulder is paining a little as I held the mike in my hands for the whole time,” Cheeni, as she is fondly called at home, said and added happily, “I did not go to school today because of it.”
Anushka, a class 5 student of ILVA School, was felicitated at `Gandhi Bhavan’, by local Congress unit for her feat this morning. She would also be given ‘Agrasen Award’ on September 3 by the Indore Agrawal Samaj.
Another singing prodigy from the city Palak Muchchal, who stays in the same building, is Anushka’s ideal. “Anushka wants to emulate Palak by staging programmes to help social cause,” her mother Pushpa Singhal said.
The event has been video-recorded and the recording along with the newspaper clippings would be sent to Limca Book of Records, where the feat would be ratified after a few formalities.
