From taunts to resolve, ‘Jhandu’ bags Commonwealth bronzeGandhinagar: For years, people in his village did not call him by the name his parents had given him. After that, people in society started calling me Jhandu Kumar. Wherever I went, they shouted ‘Jhandu Kumar’ at me,” he said. Curious officials asked who Jhandu Kumar was, and when they realised it referred to him, the room burst into laughter. His breakthrough came at the 2022 National Para Powerlifting Championships in Kolkata, where he won bronze, his first national medal.