Overview
- The new Guinness World Records entry, reported this week, credits financing that enabled over 3,800 operations for underprivileged children.
- Muchhal runs the Palak-Palash Charitable Foundation with her brother Palash, organizing benefit performances since 2000 to raise treatment funds.
- She channels a large share of concert earnings into surgeries and, when shows are scarce, covers shortfalls from personal savings with support from her husband, composer Mithoon.
- Her humanitarian work is also recognized by the Limca Book of Records, reflecting years of sustained fundraising for pediatric cardiac care.
- A documented milestone in 2013 saw more than Rs 2.5 crore raised through concerts, enabling 572 children to receive life-saving heart operations.