TO GO WITH AFP STORY Nepal-Guinness-record-shortest-offbeat, FEATURE by Prakash Mathema
In a picture taken on Febuary 6, 2012, Chandra Bahadur Dangi (L), a 72-year-old Nepali who claims to be the world’s shortest man at 56 centimetres (22 inches) in height sits next to a child in Jhapa district, southeastern Nepal. Pilloried by neighbours, laughed at in freakshows and spurned by the women he admired from afar, orphan Chandra Bahadur Dangi has always seen his tiny stature as a curse. AFP PHOTO/Prakash MATHEMA (Photo credit should read PRAKASH MATHEMA/AFP/Getty Images)
