The Father of Indian Body Building - Manohar Aich

Being only 4 feet and 11 inches, due to his short stature. He was often the butt of almost everyone’s jokes when he was nobody. he is also known as 'Pocket Hercules'. The only panacea in the world for boredom is to always be happy. This opinion was expressed by 102-year-old bodybuilder Manohar Aich on his 100th birthday. Despite being 102 years old, he has the vigor of a young man. Manohar Aich, known as the father of Indian bodybuilding, became Mr. Universe for the first time in 1952.

The father of Indian Bodybuilding 

Manohar Aich was born into a poor family on March 17, 1912, in the village of Putia in the Comilla district, which was then in Bengal but is now in Bangladesh. His father, Mahesh Chandra, and mother, Chapala Sundari Devi, were simple and said to be almost illiterate. He was about 12 when he had a near-fatal leishmaniasis attack, resulting in severe ill health and a fragile body.

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Manohar hear how it happened-

- He was born on 17 March 1913 in the 'Dhamti' village of 'Komili' district. This village is today in Bangladesh.
- From childhood, Manohar was fond of sports like wrestling and weightlifting. He died when he was 12 years old. His health was very bad.
- He did a lot of exercises to regain his physical strength.
- While studying in a school in Dhaka, he started working with the famous magician PC Sarkar.

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Professional career-

- Manohar joined Royal Air Force in 1942 with bodybuilding.

- Reub Martin, a British officer in the Royal Air Force, recognized his talent and encouraged him.

- Manohar Aich was then punished for killing a British officer. Then he started weight training in jail. After seeing this, a special diet was designed for them.

- Manoharyani won the Mr. Hercules contest in 1950 at the age of 37.

- He was the second runner-up in the 1951 Mr. Universe contest. So 1952.

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He won the title of Mr. Universe.

- He placed third in the Mr. Universe contest in 1955 after winning the World Championship

position and was fourth in the 1960 tournament. He was 47 years old then.

- After 1960, Manohar Aich did many bodybuilding shows. He of his career

The last show was in 2003 at the age of 90.

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Private life

- His wife's name was Juthika Aich. He passed away in 2002.

- Manohar Aich has two sons and two daughters. One of his sons runs an arena, while the other owns a fitness and health center.

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The death of Manohar Aich, India’s Pocket Hercules and the second-ever Indian Mr. Universe (after Monotosh Roy), earlier this month brought forth a stream of reminiscences about physical cultures in this part of the world. Much of what we know about the subject is anecdotal and dispersed, but if there is one word that speaks reliably on the subject, it is Sachindra Majumdar’s 1940 classic Balider Galpa (Tales Of Strength), now sadly out of print. Published by the Kolkata-based Deb Sahitya Kutir, the nearly 200-page book is veritable who’s who of Indian strongmen and, on some occasions, women, interspersed
Majumdar’s book is dedicated to the wrestler Gobar Goho, with whom he attended the Metropolitan Institution in Calcutta, as it was then known. They were both thrashed severely by their Bengali teacher, which may or may not have contributed to their taking up careers in wrestling.