BHU Student Creates World’s Largest Spice Painting Using Expired Spices & It’s Beautiful

by Sanjana Shenoy
BHU Student Creates World’s Largest Spice Painting Using Expired Spices & It’s Beautiful

India has no dearth of talent. Recently, a young girl from Tamil Nadu cooked 46 dishes in 58 minutes and entered the UNICO Book of World Records. And now, a student from Banaras Hindu University, created the world’s largest painting using expired spices and natural colours. Her painting entered the Guinness World Records. Neha Singh painted the ‘moksh ka vriksh’ or tree of salvation measuring 62.72 square meters.

Neha Singh A Student From BHU Created The World’s Largest Spice Painting; Enters Guinness World Book Of Records

A student of BHU created the world’s largest painting. Ballia District Magistrate Shrihari Pratap Shahi said to News18, “Neha Singh has made the largest painting in the world using natural colours, measuring 62.72 sq metres. She has painted a ”moksh ka vriksh” (tree of salvation), for which her name has been included in the Guinness World Records.” Singh is a student of Vedic Science at the university. She hails from the Rasra tehsil.

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The Spice Painting Measures 675 Square Feet

The Guinness World Records reports on its website that Neha Singh achieved this feat on November 18, 2020. The segment about her reads”The largest spice painting is 62.72 m2 (675.12 ft2) and was achieved by Neha Singh (India) in Ballia, India, on 18 November 2020. Neha is a post-graduate in Fine Art. She was inspired to create this painting as to create something special out of what would have been wasted food (the spices used for the painting had passed their sell by date).”

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Neha Singh was inspired to create this painting using expired spices, which would have otherwise been discarded as waste. Fascinatingly, the earlier record for the world’s largest spice painting was also held by Indian. Shreya Tatinini from Vijaywada in Andhra Pradesh created a spice painting spanning 588.56 square feet. The spices of India are indeed mesmerising. So, it’s heartwarming to know that Indians hold the world record for a painting created using expired spices. Meanwhile, if you’re a spice lover watch this video for a little chuckle. 

First Published: December 22, 2020 12:24 PM