Jalandhar based Physics professor sets another memory record

JALANDHAR: Already five memory records – two in Limca Book of Records and three in India Book of Records – in his name, Jalandhar resident Kunwer Rajeev, who is Associate Professor of Physics at local DAV College, has now got his name registered with World Records India, which certifies and acknowledges new World Records made in India.
The latest record is in recalling the names of most nations and their capitals in one minute. “The earlier records were in the names of a German and Indian with 49 and 53 recalls respectively and I was able to recall names of 60 nations and their capitals in one minute to break the previous record at the stage of Genius Foundation and World Records India where he had gone to receive Genius Indian Achiever's Award ' GIAA 2018' titled 'Memory Genius'. I requested the authorities to allow me to attempt a World Record at that stage where top fifty record holders of the nation were going to be honoured. My request was acceded and I made that world record,” said Kunwer Rajeev.

“I have developed capabilities to memorize literally anything. I am a memorizer and probably the first person in the world to memorize six-point data of all 545 Lok Sabha MPs. I have memorized day of the week for around 1000 years along with more than 1200 phone numbers, birthdays of 1200 prominent Indians, exact area and population of all 197 countries of the world, sixteen-point information about all Indian states and UTs, mass number of all 118 periodic table elements binary numbers, cards memorization, 1000 digits of pie value, all types of Rubik's cubes and much more,” he said.

However, he is not keeping the skill confined to himself alone and has been imparting training to students in workshops. “Till now I have held around 40 workshop to tell the students to hone their memory skills. The only purpose of my records was to reach more and more students, so that they can memorise easily and can come out of study pressure and depression,” he said, adding that anybody who is from 9 to 90 years of age and mentally alert, could train one's memory to improve quality of his life. “Memorisation becomes fun after training. One starts giving challenges to himself for more and more memorisation. These are just the tools but ultimate success cannot be achieved without learning the art and science of goal setting and achieving,” said Rajeev.