WORLD'S FIRST TWITTER BOOK - 'PURAN KATHA'

Dinesh Shivnath Upadhyaya is a teacher, writer & also multiple world record holder from Mumbai. Dinesh believes in creative writing, so he always involve in experiments in writings. His ‘Puran Katha’ - First Twitter Book is one of best example of it.

‘Puran Katha’ (Ancient Story) is a collection of micro stories on ancient Hindu mythology. Dinesh believe that ‘Puran Katha’ is World’s first ever book with most (250) micro stories (in the form of tweets) published on Twitter. [http://twitter.com/#!/PuranKatha]

Dinesh Upadhyaya started writing micro stories (in the form of tweets) from 4th July, 2010 on Twitter under the title ‘Puran Katha’ & till 5th August, 2010 it contain 101 micro stories.  [http://twitter.com/#!/PuranKatha]

New York (USA) based world record organization ‘Record Setter’ (URDB) recognized his writing work as world record of “Most Micro-Stories Published On Twitter” on starting of 2011.

[http://recordsetter.com/world-record/micro-stories-published-twitter/5679]

On 22nd May 2011, after 5 months of more research & writing, Dinesh Upadhyaya added 149 more Micro – Stories in it so now, there are total 250 Micro- Stories in his collection “Puran Katha”. On the same time ‘Record Setter’ (URDB) upgraded his world record status.

[http://recordsetter.com/world-record/micro-stories-published-twitter/7586]

In ‘Puran Katha’ (Puran - Ancient / Katha - Story) all 250 Micro - Stories based on ancient Hindu mythological events, epics like Ramayana, Mahabharata, Shrimad Bhagavad-Gita, Vedas, Upanishads, Purans & other authentic sources.

To make use of all 140 characters in a single tweet, Dinesh avoid use of space between two words by capitalization of first letter of each word. Under the limitation of 140 characters, he confirm that his each story is complete itself & each story is different from other stories. Each micro-story is in Hindi but typed in English. Each story is serialized by respective number.

'India Book of Records' also consider Dinesh's claim as record of 'First Twitter Book' for their upcoming 2012 edition.
Dinesh Upadhyaya expecting same positive result from 'Limca Book of Records'

[http://www.indiabookofrecords.in/records-gallery/print-and-publication/first-twitter-book ]

‘HELLO, SISTER!’ - World’s Longest Fictional Work (Monologue) From Only Movie Titles

Dinesh Shivnath Upadhyaya is a teacher & writer from Mumbai (India). He is a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Physical Chemistry from Mumbai University. Science background is not a barrier in his writing passion. He believe in creative writing, so he always involve in experiments in writing. One of the fine example of his experiments in writing is an original Monologue title as ‘Hello Sister!’

Monologue, in literature and drama is an extended speech written for performance by one person. A dramatic monologue is a piece of performed writing that offers great insight into the feelings of the speaker. It will be any speech of some duration addressed by a character to a second person.

'HELLO SISTER!' autographed by Mr. Perfectionist “Aamir Khan”.

‘Hello Sister!’ is a good example of dramatic monologue which is in the form of one sided telephonic conversation. In this writing work, one sided telephonic conversation is done by Aladdin, younger brother who phone to her sister Rajnandini in one late night & remaining content is all about his emotional conversation. In his conversation, Aladdin shows different emotion of human nature. The set up of this monologue is of 1980’s, somewhere in small town of India..

One of the unique & special features of this writing work is that, Dinesh has written it with using only & only movie titles. As per his knowledge & research, this is the very first kind of work in entire writing world. Dinesh used total 621 movie titles in the formation of ‘Hello Sister!’

These 621 titles are from different Indian, Asian, European & American movies. All movie titles were verified from http://www.imdb.com/ & other renowned movie sites. He prepared an INDEX to show the details (Year, Language, Director, Producer) of each & every movie titles he used in his work.

Dinesh Upadhyaya started this work in starting month of 2009 & for this he dealt with thousands of world movies. Basically the Language of this Monologue is the mixture of Hindi & English but the titles used in it were from Arabic, Assamese, Austrian, Australian, Bengali, Cantonese, Chhatisgarhi, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Egyptian, English, French, German, Haryanvi, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Mandarin, Malayalam, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Serbian, Silent, Swedish, Taiwanese, Tamil, Telugu, Turkish, Urdu movies.

One important thing here Dinesh want to mention that, it is written with so much care that all movie titles makes sense & no one can easily point out that this work is made from only movie titles.


According to Dinesh Upadhyaya’s belief, it is world’s longest fictional writing work using only & only movie titles. It is grammatically correct & totally meaningful.

Limca Book of Record (India) in his latest edition of 2011 featured ‘Hello Sister!’ in Literature section on page no. 219 as record of ‘Longest fictional work using only movie titles’.

Limca Book of Record (India)

RECORD SETTER (USA)

New York based World Record organization ‘Record Setter’ (URDB) consider it world record as ‘Longest Fictional Monologue Using Movie Titles’

http://urdb.org/world-record/fictional-work-monologue-from-only-movie-titles

Dinesh Upadhyaya says that he has done this record to establish himself as a unique writer in entire world. He is planning to make a short movie of 8-10 minutes on it after getting reorganization from all reputed World Record Books.

On 23rd June 2011, at Radio City Mumbai studio, Dinesh Upadhyaya got a golden opportunity to perform his worldwide famous world record of “Most pencil stuffed in mouth” in front of top most Indian movie actor & producer Mr. Perfectionist “Aamir Khan”  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aamir_Khan).

Aamir Khan declare award of ‘Sabse Pagal Mumbaikar’ to Dinesh Shivnath Upadhyaya. Aamir Khan also read Dinesh’s Limca Book of Records & ‘Record Setter’ (USA) awarded book “Hello, Sister!” which is the longest Fictional Monologue made from only & only (621) movie titles. Aamir impressed with this work & autographed on front page of book with a good message.

WORLD'S SHORTEST BOOK ADVERTISEMENT

Dinesh Shivnath Upadhyaya is a teacher, writer & multiple world record holder from Goregaon, Mumbai (India). He believes in creative writing, so he always involve in experiments in writings. ‘Puran Katha’ is one of best example of it.

‘Puran Katha’ (Ancient Story) is Dinesh’s collection of micro stories on ancient Hindu mythology. He also believe that ‘Puran Katha’ is world’s first ever ‘Twitter Book’ with most (250) micro stories (in the form of tweets) published on Twitter.

http://twitter.com/#!/PuranKatha


New York based world record organization ‘Record Setter’ recognized his writing work as world record of “Most Micro-Stories Published On Twitter”.

http://urdb.org/world-record/micro-stories-published-twitter/7586

Almost 1 year of research & writing, Dinesh completed total 250 micro stories. All micro stories based on ancient Hindu mythological events, epics like Ramayana, Mahabharata, Shrimad Bhagavad-Gita, Vedas, Upanishads, Purans, & other authentic sources. Under the limitation of 140 characters, each story is complete & different from other stories. Each micro story is in Hindi (National language of India) but typed in English.


For the publicity of his unique book, Dinesh made a unique video advt. of just 0.33 second. Now he claims for the ‘Shortest Book Advertisement’.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7IPGE1PhlI

http://adland.tv/commercials/guniess-book-records-worlds-shortest-ad-1993-001-usa

Recently, New York based world record organization 'Record Setter' recognized his creativity as world record of 'Shortest Book Advertisement'

http://urdb.org/world-record/shortest-advertisement