India's tallest man longs for love

Though Singh has an MA in Hindi, he is yet to find a good job and works in an amusement park as a freak-show performer

INDIA: At over 8-feet tall, Dharmendra Singh is known as India's tallest man. But the downside to incredible height is his struggle in finding both a job and a wife. 

The 32-year-old from Meerut, Uttar Pradesh has a Master's desgree in Hindi; yet, the only job he has is at an amusement park.

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"Whenever I went for interviews for jobs, people asked how I will work if I am so tall," he said in an interview.

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Due to the lack of employment opportunities, Singh was forced to take up a job in the local amusement park, where he works as a freak show performer. People pay him to have their picture taken and he gets INR10 for every picture taken.

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Singh has also expressed fears that he will never be able to find a wife.

"In terms of marriage, the main problem is my height. It will be very difficult to find someone who is tall enough for me. I think it is impossible," he said.

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Due to his immense height, he also has trouble walking and fractured his hip bone a few months earlier.

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No one in Singh's family is  exceptionally tall except for his maternal grandfather, who was 7 ft 3 in. He was often bullied by his peers as a child and was called names such as 'giraffe' and 'camel'. Some even said that his height made him 'hopeless'.

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It's not all downhill, however. Singh says he feels like a celebrity when people constantly want to be photographed with him.

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"I am immensely popular and it is all because of my height," he said adding that sometimes people "run away without paying."

This article originally appeared on NDTV