All for a record : Pookkalam contest
Deccan Herald - 27 Aug, 2007
Kochi, PTI: A new record was set at a ‘Pookkalam contest’, organised as part of the Onam celebrations here on Saturday, in which as many as 342 large flower carpets were arranged under one roof. As many as 1,710 people participated in the Cuticura Pookkalam contest.
The existing record as entered in the Limca Book of World Records, is of arranging 299 large ‘pookkalam’ by 1,495 people during the last edition of the same contest, according to K A Murali Sundar, general manager of Cuticura (Sales and Marketing). As much as 3.86 tonnes of flowers were used for the entire exercise.