Mancherial boy creates paint using 1 lakh thumbprints to create awareness on COVID-19

In an unprecedented move, a 10-year-old boy from Mancherial drew the largest painting using one lakh thumbprints to create awareness among the people on COVID-19 pandemic. Tallam Harshith, a native of Rechini village in Thandur mandal of Mancherial district created the biggest painting for the first time in the country and entered into the International Book of Records (IBR).

Dr S Shivaramakrishna, the Karimnagar chief coordinator of IBR, awarded the certificate to Harshith at an event held in the district on Sunday evening. "Harshith had come up with a unique idea to raise awareness on the coronavirus pandemic and executed it well, " said B Satya Prakash, coach of the boy adding the boy was trained for only 10 days.

Prakash went on to say that Harshith worked for about 42 hours and used his left and right thumb impressions for the drawing. He then used alphabets explaining what to do and what not to do in the wake of the pandemic. It is learned that Harshith began to draw the painting on June 7 and finished it on June 14 spending seven hours a day.

Harshith, a Class 6 student of a private school in Hyderabad has thought of drawing the painting while he was at his grandparents home during the lockdown. After receiving the presentation from IBR, Harshith's father Raghuveer thanked the trainer and said that his son developed the passion for drawing since childhood. "To encourage him, we hired a trainer from Satya Classes, a private institution in Karimnagar," Raghuveer said.