Word: porbandar
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...backed Indian woman (Brindavan, 1995), she invited him home for tea and told him how she'd lived her whole life on charity, praying for others. Wading through floods in India put him on a level with a smiling man holding a precious sewing machine out of the water (Porbandar, 1983). The photos are on display until Jan. 31 at the cultural and business center, which opened earlier this month in London's fashionable Marylebone district. The space will show traditional and contemporary Asian arts in its gallery, and host lectures (past subjects have included Sichuan cookery and Persian mysticism...
BORN Oct. 2, 1869, in Porbandar, India 1915-20 Begins his struggle for India's independence 1947 Helps end 190 years of British colonial rule in India 1948 Assassinated by a fanatic opposed to his tolerance of other religions...
...night before his death, Gandhi had recited a homely Gujarati couplet known in Porbandar (where he was born in 1869). It went...
Bleats of a Goat. "Forever" might have been a longer time if it had not been for a scrawny, timid schoolboy then in the northwest India town of Porbandar on the Arabian Sea, 700 miles away. Mohandas Kamarchand Gandhi was eight years old at the time of the Great Durbar at Delhi. He was already sensitive about his British rulers. His schoolmates used to recite a bit of doggerel...
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