Shashanka Sekhar Dash from India collected a huge number of newspapers.
The total number was as follows: more than 4.5 thousand copies.
The most interesting thing is that we are talking about periodicals of different names.
The presence of an unusual collection allowed the Indian to get into the Guinness Book of Records.
Indian man's "newspaper" obsession
Shashanka Sekhar Dash developed a passion for reading newspapers as a child.
In 2000, the Indian became an assistant editor of one of the printed publications.
As part of his work, the man read a huge number of newspapers.
After some time, he began to accumulate an impressive collection.
As a result, Shashanka Sekhar Dash collected 4515 newspapers of different names.
The collection of the Indian resident included printed periodicals from 138 countries.
The newspapers collected by the man contain articles in 94 languages.
The most interesting thing is that the Indian visited only one country - Nepal - to collect newspapers. He received the rest of the periodicals through other people.
The compilers of the Guinness Book of Records have recognized the collection of publications collected by a resident of India as the largest collection of newspapers with different titles.
