death_place death_date religion birth_place children name spouse article_title birth_name occupation
english channel august 6 , 1984 hindu sri lanka rajan until he quit microsoft -rrb- anandan , presently managing director google india -lrb- v.s. kumar anandan manel anandan v. s. kumar anandan
 v.s. kumar anandan attorney , guinness world records holder .
v. s. kumar anandan

v.s. kumar anandan was a guinness world records holder .
his one of many records include swimming the palk strait , from sri lanka to india and back in 51 hours , in the year 1971 .
once he met with a motor vehicle accident and was hospitalized for six months .
while attempting to swim the english channel on august 6 , 1984 he collapsed and died due to heavy currents .
kumar anandan held the maximum number of individual guinness records at a point in time which included non-stop water treading -lrb- 80 hours at chennai -rrb- , standing on one leg for 33 hours , non-stop dancing , ball punching for 136 hours , etc. .
he was from valvettithurai , jaffna district , sri lanka .
he had a successful educational career , he was a graduate of university of london .
he also obtained the bachelor of laws degree in sri lanka -lrb- then ceylon -rrb- and was an attorney at law by profession .
