By The Editorial Desk | Culture & Infrastructure
The runway was fresh. The rhythm was ancient. When around 13,750 schoolchildren moved in unison to the Dhimsa beat at the Bhogapuram airport inaugural, a tribal melody from the hills of Andhra Pradesh met one of the state's biggest infrastructure moments in decades. The result, according to event organisers, was a flawless performance — and a place in the Guinness World Records.
An ancient tribal dance on a new airport stage
Dhimsa is not a stagecraft flourish. It is a living tradition of tribal communities in the Visakhapatnam-Agency belt of Andhra Pradesh — a group dance performed at festivals, weddings and village gatherings, with dancers linking shoulders and moving in tight, swinging formations to the pulse of drums.
At Bhogapuram, that circle spread across an airport. The scale was the point: thousands of schoolchildren dancing the same steps at the same moment, turning a folk tradition into a mass spectacle timed with the airport's launch.
13,750 children, one beat, one record
The numbers dwarf most cultural events in the region. Around 13,750 schoolchildren took part in the Dhimsa jamboree, according to the initial event report. The performance, the announcement said, was executed "flawlessly."
The jamboree was aimed squarely at the Guinness World Records — and it landed. Rather than being confined to an auditorium, the dance was placed at the heart of the airport's inaugural celebrations, making the terminal's opening a visual tribute to tribal cultures whose traditions define much of the region's identity.
