India's tallest man at 8ft 1inch struggling to find love

Dharmendra Singh, 8ft 1in, says the trouble is discovering somebody sufficiently tall for me, which he included was presumably unthinkable.

India's tallest man is attempting to discover affection as a result of his stature.

At 8ft 1in height – just two inches short of the world record – Dharmendra Singh stands head and shoulders over his kindred comrades.

But due to his height the 32-year-old, from Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, said he is yet to locate The woman for him.

Mr Singh said: "as far as marriage, the principle issue is my tallness. It will be exceptionally hard to discover somebody who is sufficiently tall for me. I think it is incomprehensible.

“So this is also the reason why I haven’t had a girlfriend. Women are very much interested in me. They talk to me and giggle but I have never met anyone who I could look up to.
“In college I was a very shy person. Like other boys, I never approached girls to have a chat. I had great respect for them but never met the woman of my dreams”.
He also said he's finding it difficult to get a job. He said: “Whenever I went for interviews for jobs, people asked how i will do the work if I was so tall.”

With his relative


Reluctantly, he took up work as a freak show performer at a local amusement park, where he spends his days in a cage-like structure selling photographs to paying punter for 10p per pop.
“After completing my studies, when I could not get a regular job, I got an offer saying that I will be paid 30 pence per day at the amusement park,” he said.
“I charge 10 pence for one picture. Some people pay, some run away without paying. I get hurt when people run away without paying me.”
Mr Singh also gets a monthly salary of 10,000 rupees (£100) which enables him to survive.
“With that kind of money, I manage by life,” he added.
While most of Mr Singh’s family are a normal height, his maternal grandfather was 7ft 3in, suggesting his size could be genetic.
As a child he was always taller than his peers and was often bullied in his youth.
He said: “I was ill-treated by many people who would call me names like ‘giraffe’ or ‘camel’.’
“Some people would say that I have grown too tall and I have become useless. People would say I have become hopeless. I used to feel bad about these things.
“I was not very friendly with the children in my neighbourhood and I didn’t make many friends. I have a problem – I can’t make friends. And that holds true for women also.”

Mr Singh, who holds a master's degree in Hindi, said his height poses some real problems for him.
“I have to face a lot of problems in my day to day life because of my height. I need a helper to help me with smaller things. I have trouble even walking,” he said.
"I need someone to go to market and buy things for me. I don’t go to the market very because it is very crowded and people harass me.
"I have to face a lot of hardships which a normal person does not have to. It is a terrible feeling when I am unable to do normal things."
Nevertheless, he said being tall was not completely terrible.
He said: “I feel great when people look at me and get happy. I make their day. They want to know about me and get photos clicked. I am immensely popular and it is all because of my height.”
Mr Singh said his height did cause health problems.
“I few months back, I had fractured my hip bone. I got myself treated in Delhi. I have a plate in my hip, and I have to bear pain because of it. I have to use a stick for support,” he said.
Suman, Mr Singh's neighbour, said: “Neighbours used to talk a lot about his height as they had never seen someone like him before but he never paid any heed to what people said. He was always a very optimistic and cheerful person.
“He is like a son to me and I wish he finds a suitable girl for himself and gets married.”