Word: vadnagar
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...Modi grew up in Vadnagar, a small town of 40,000 in the semiarid scrub about 200 kilometers from the Pakistani border. In many ways Vadnagar, like much of the rest of Gujarat, encapsulates the best of India. It is prosperous and progressive, a place where parents bring up their children as vegetarians and teetotalers and dreaming of being managers in the state's western industrial belt. In its bazaar, Hindus and Muslims mix freely as neighbors and friends. There is little here to nurture hate in a young Hindu. But the people of Vadnagar remember two things about their...
...From Vadnagar, India, north of Bombay, last week flashed exciting words. "Experts in anthropology" announced that they had found fossil remains of a pygmy man 15 in. tall, a pygmy cow 18 in. high. The Press earnestly began gathering learned speculations on this "cradleland of the human race." But when the backwash of inquiries engulfed the town of Vadnagar, local authorities called the story a hoax, either the work of a practical joker or, as the Associated Press found, "the result of an old Hindu superstition that spreading a false rumor sometimes aids toward solving a domestic problem...
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