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Kaleem showing his enormous hands [Photo: vpimages]
A young boy is baffling doctors in India - after his hands swelled to giant proportions.
Eight-year-old Kaleem's hands weigh eight kilograms each and measure 13 inches from the base of his palm to the end of his middle finger.
The cricket fan is unable to do many basic tasks - including tying his shoelaces - and has been bullied and shunned most of his life.
He said: "I do not go to school because the teacher says other kids are scared of my hands.
"Many of them used to bully me for my deformity. They would say 'let's beat up the kid with the large hands'.
"Some of them have actually beaten me and would go after me often.
He added: "I find it difficult to put on my clothes, button my shirt and pull up my pants.
"But I don't know if I want doctors to operate on my hands. They would have to make me unconscious and then they would cut me open.
"I have no problem if they could do it without an injection. A small operation would be okay."
