Tulsidas epic now world’s longest recorded song

VARANASI: Shri Ramcharitmanas’, composed and recorded in a single track by Banaras Hindu University’s vedic science teacher Jagadeesh Pillai, is now world's longest recorded song. The Guinness World Records has acknowledged Pillai’s feat. This is the fifth Guinness honour for Pillai in the past 11 years.

Earlier, the longest officially released song was of 115 hours 45 minutes by Mark Christopher Lee and The Pocket Gods from St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK.

Pillai composed and recorded a single track based on the entire book of the epic “Shri Ramcharitmanas.” . It is written in Awadhi language, and composed by the 16th-century bhakti poet Goswami Tulsidas.

UP minister of state, AYUSH, Food Safety and Drug Administration, Dayashankar Mishra ‘Dayalu’ on Wednesday met Pillai and said despite not being from a Hindi speaking state, singing such a long song in Awadhi language in such a beautiful way with bhajans and kirtans as per the rules of Guinness record, are really amazing.

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