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Thirteen thousand tribal women set Dhimsa dance record
Telegraph India··3 Aug
Over thirteen thousand tribal women and girl students performed the Dhimsa dance to welcome Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Bhogapuram on August 1 during the Alluri Sitarama Raju International Airport inauguration. Guinness World Records certified it as the largest Dhimsa dance event. Dancers formed 433 concentric circles of fifty each, mostly students from ITDA schools across Andhra tribal regions.
Prism
What It Means For You
- Andhra Pradesh residents can use the Alluri Sitarama Raju International Airport at Bhogapuram when commercial flights begin from August 17.
- Anyone interested in tribal culture can note the Guinness record for the largest Dhimsa dance with over thirteen thousand participants.
- Travellers in northern Andhra may benefit from an airport with six million annual passenger capacity expandable to forty million.
What's Happening
- Over thirteen thousand tribal women and girl students performed the Dhimsa dance to welcome Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Bhogapuram on August 1.
- Guinness World Records certified it as the largest Dhimsa dance event during the Alluri Sitarama Raju International Airport inauguration.
- Dancers formed 433 concentric circles of fifty each, mostly Class VIII to X students from ITDA schools across tribal regions.
Guinness Recognises Largest Dhimsa Performance Ever
- Students travelled from Paderu, Seethampeta, Parvathipuram and Rampachodavaram for the performance ahead of the airport opening.
- Bhogapuram is India's second greenfield airport to start operations in 2026 after Uttar Pradesh's Jewar airport opened in June.
- Modi said the airport would become a runway for Andhra Pradesh development, particularly in the northern region.
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