N Mareesh from Virudhunagar, a programmer and analyst at Cognizant, the Calendar Man of Limca

'Calendar man' keeps date with fame 7 Sep 2008, 0514 hrs IST, T K Rohit,TNN

Calendar Man: Mareesh. (TOI Photo) CHENNAI: “What day will November 5, 92510 be?” asked the jury. Maaresh, 24, took just about 4.5 seconds to give the correct reply — Wednesday. This is one of the answers that helped him enter the Limca Book of World Records for the second time. And all this, without the help of any technology or science — just the pure power of the human brain. Facing the formidable task of having to recall the day of 20 random dates ranging over a period of one lakh years (3.65 crore days), N Mareesh from Virudhunagar, a programmer and analyst at Cognizant took just one minute and thirty seconds and shattered the existing record of 10.45 minutes for a period ranging over 60,000 years set by Pawan Kumar Srivastava of Uttar Pradesh. In fact, Mareesh became the first person in the world to attempt a record for one lakh dates. The record was for ‘perpetual calendar’, a super memory contest where participants reel out dates, days of the week and months of the year when given a particular date, day or month full story