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Learn the Kaliya way!

Here is a book that helps you bank on your memory

PHOTO: V. SUDERSHAN

MIND THAT BODY! Biswaroop Roy Choudhary's record-breaking 198 push-ups in one minute were due to his mental re-conditioning

They say count your chickens before they hatch. But what to do if counting in itself is a problem? Now help is at hand. The Guinness World Record holder Biswaroop Roy Choudhary has come up with a book on memory improving methods.

Imaginatively called "Tera Kya Hoga Kaliya", it is brought out by Idea Publication. "If you remove the vowels from the popular dialogue the consonants that are left make for the techniques that I have enlisted in the book to improve the memory."

For instance, if you have to remember that Velentina Tereskova was the first female cosmonaut, try to remember a small story. On `Valentine's Day' one girl was standing on the `terrace' of her house. Her `cosmonaut' boyfriend comes and takes her to outer space.

Biswaroop holds the Guinness record for giving 14 names and their date of birth in two minutes. At the release of the book, Biswaroop broke another record. He did 198 push-ups in one minute. "The previous record is in the name of a Canadian Roy Berges, who did 138 push-ups in 2004. The unedited video of the feat would be sent to the Guinness Book headquarters for inclusion in the next issue," claims Biswaroop.

Mind matters

An engineering graduate, Biswaroop says he felt like an absent minded person before he discovered the hidden powers of the mind. "Everything is related to the mind. Though my new record seems to be a physical record, believe me it's only 20 per cent physical, the rest is all mental power. Our mind is conditioned in such a way, whenever you talk of a record, it first sends a signal you can't do it. In this case I had to convince myself that the existing record is in the range of some thousand push-ups in one minute. And see the result."

Biswaroop conducts classes across the country for students. "Mostly parents come with queries how their wards can clear the entrance examinations. I believe memory coaching should be introduced as a subject in the classes. Students should understand the brain and its immense potential. Most people could not use more than four per cent of their mental power in their life time."

He feels his memory methods could also be used to relieve stress. "Stress is nothing but accumulation of unwanted memories. It's like reverse gear, where the basic technology is the same, still the car moves in the backward direction."

ANUJ KUMAR

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