Karan Singh, a 5-year-old living in Meerut, is already 5 feet 7 inches tall. He holds the Guinness World Records for being the tallest for his age. His mother Shweatlana Singh (25) is 7 feet 2 inches tall. Both of them also have an acute sense of hearing and "can hear sounds from far away", claims Sanjay Singh, Karan's father.