Shillong: With a growing number of entries from India making it to the Guinness Book of World Records, its officials are contemplating the appointment of a permanent adjudicator for the country.
"We have one in China. We are now thinking of one for India," Michael Sean Whitty, an adjudicator of the Guinness book, said here when asked if there was any permanent
representative to assess an increasing number of feats being achieved by Indians.
In the absence of any permanent adjudicator, Whitty had to fly here from Britain to oversee the world's largest drum ensemble at one place in the Meghalaya capital on Saturday.
After declaring the gala event, organised by the Meghalaya Tourism Development Forum, of gathering 7,951 drummers a world record, Whitty said it was a 'proud moment' for the state, people and region.
Saturday's feat eclipsed the previous record made in Hongkong in February, 2005 with 7,725 drummers performing at one place.
Whitty said that Meghalaya had already entered the Guinness Book of World Records - one for the highest rainfall at Cherrapunjee in a month and the other for the highest rainfall in a year at Mausynram.
Whitty, in charge of publishing photographs in the record books, said that pictures of the Shillong drummers would figure in the 2008 issue.
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