A miniature book of poems written by a Thrissur-based writer has entered the registry of the Record Holders Republic of U.K. The RHR has named the book written by Sathar Adhoor the ‘World’s Smallest Readable Book of Poems’.

The book, titled ‘One’, contains poems in 66 languages, including nine Indian ones. It is 1cm long, 1 cm wide and 4 mm thick. Ten copies of the book can be created using an A4 sheet paper. The book has been printed in a press at Changaramkulam.

Some of the poems are in English, Armenian, Byelorussian, Polish, Azerbaijani, Norwegian, Japanese, Arabic, Korean, Yiddish, Latvian,

Serbian, Spanish, Portuguese, Bulgarian and Chinese.

The poems, written originally in Malayalam, were translated into foreign and other Indian languages with the help of the author’s friends in the Gulf.

In 2011, he made it into the Limca Book of Records for the smallest ever literary works published in the world. His creations included two miniature books in Malayalam and one in English. The Malayalam books – ‘SMS 101 kadhakal’ (40 mm x 25 mm x 4 mm) and ‘SMS 101 kavithakal’ (30 mm x 25 x 4 mm) – have 100 pages each. The dimension of the English book, ‘50:50’, is 16mm x 13 mm x 4 mm.

In 2008, he made a 10-second video, titled ‘The Man’, in an attempt to enter the Guinness Book of World Records. The film depicts in seven shots the helplessness of an ant that had fallen into a pool of water and the hands of a man that kill the insect.