Mr Avtar Singh Mauni the proud owner of the world’s
heaviest turban is a 60 year old resident of Patiala, in Punjab. His 100 pond
turban has almost made to the world record. He claims that if his turban is
unwrapped then it stretches to 645 meters which is equal to the length of 13
Olympic sized swimming pools.
He says that wasn’t always this big, he has been
regularly adding on to it since past 16 years as the result of that today it
continuous to getting larger. It takes him about six hours to put it on. He
doesn’t view it as some kind of weight he says that his turban is a part of his
culture and more importantly a part of himself. Without his turban he feels
like there is some part of him missing.
It is in Sikh culture to wear turbans, and most of the
Sikhs wear turbans that are about seven meters long but Mr Mauni took his
turban to a whole different level. The current, heaviest turban owner in the
world is Major Singh but when Mr Mauni’s turban’s length will be verified, he says
he would definitely take over that place in the Guinness world book of records.
Carrying such a huge turban does poses many
difficulties it is hard for him to cross doorways and getting into a car is just
out of question. But he says that he will carry his turban with pride until the
time he has no more strength in his limbs.
