Meet Singh, The World’s Smelliest Man (has had no Bath in 37 years)

Meet Singh, The World’s Smelliest Man (has had no Bath in 37 years) |

It is not an achievement that can readily be savored by his nearest and dearest. But Kailash Singh has as good a claim as any to the accolade of world’s smelliest man – after refusing to wash for more than 37 years.

It is not an achievement that can readily be savoured by  his nearest and dearest. But Kailash Singh has as good a claim as any to the accolade of world’s smelliest man – after refusing to wash for more than 37 years.

Mr Singh, 65, has not bathed or cut his 6ft-long dreadlocks since 1974, shortly after he married.Explaining his unconventional decision, Mr Singh claimed a priest guaranteed him a much-prized son an

d heir if he followed the advice.Despite neighbours joking the sweaty farmer would be lucky persuade his wife to have any children at all, his religious guidance clearly failed – he has seven daughters.

Mr Singh spends his days tending cows in 47C heat, yet the only ‘cleansing’ he does allow himself is a ‘fire bath’ each evening, which involves smoking marijuana, praying to the Hindu Lord Shiva and dancing around a bonfire.His long-suffering family admit they did once tried to force him into a stream.’He fought us off and ran away,’ said wife Kalavati Devi, 60.

‘We’ve tried several times since to force him to have a shower but he puts up such a fuss.’He says he’d rather die than take a bath and only a son could change his mind.