From a 10x5 rented room to the Commonwealth Games: 'Jhandu', created from 'Avinash' amidst poverty; after winning bronze in Glasgow, now aiming for gold in 2028.

Jhandu Kumar (formerly Avinash Kumar), the para powerlifter who rose to international fame by waving India's flag from Nalanda's Harnaut town, chose a different path. The boy whose childhood was spent in a 10×5 square feet damp rented room, with a torn ceiling and sleeping on a mat on the floor, selling potatoes, onions, and bhunja (a type of lentil soup) to feed his family, and driving an e-rickshaw (totu), is now being celebrated by the entire country.