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India's 'Pocket Hercules'

Tributes have been paid to celebrated Indian body-builder, popularly known as 'Pocket Hercules', because he was only 1.49m tall.
Manohar Aich, who died aged 104, was the first Indian to become Mr Universe in 1952, five years after the country's independence. The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s South Asia Editor Jill McGivering looked at his colourful life.

(Picture: Manohar Aich / Credit: AFP)

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