– 73 Hours of English Grammar and a record!

This guy – Sanjay Kumar Sinha taught English grammAr for 73 hrs and 24 mins to a class continuously!!

I could understand if it was an interesting subject.. but ENGLISH GRAMMAR??

An Indian has taught a marathon non-stop, no-sleep English grammar class for three days to 60 students in the city of Mumbai (Bombay).

Sanjay Kumar Sinha taught for 73 hours and 24 minutes in an attempt to get into the Guinness Book of Records for the longest lesson.

The current record is held by a Polish man, Elzbieta Malinowska, who taught for 66 hours in June 2004.

Mr Sinha features in Indian record books for the quickest lesson taught.

Sleepy audience

He began teaching the students on Thursday morning and continued the lesson until Sunday morning. None of them slept a wink for three days, he says.

Mr Sinha told the BBC he was happy at having managed to teach for so long and could have continued for the next three days.

“I have not eaten any food since the last two days but I still feel very energetic. I have a craze for teaching grammar and am still charged up,” he said.

Mr Sinha said he tried to keep his sleepy audience awake by asking them to read out sentences, shout out answers, respond to queries and generally engage them by throwing questions at them.

“I devised my own teaching method for this event which is very interactive and inspired by the manner in which Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan engages his audience in the game show, Kaun Banega Crorepati (KBC).”

The show is an Indian version of the British television hit, Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? and enjoys tremendous popularity in the country.

The host, Amitabh Bachchan is known to talk to the contestants and get them to open up despite their shyness and reticence.

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