Modi’s Vadnagar: The man about town, and a town about the man


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It takes a village to raise a child. And sometimes, the story goes the other way. Vadnagar, many of its old-timers recall, used to be one of those Indian villages, with a high school at most, and no proper roads or tap water. Among its few amenities was electricity, not so common at the time, and a railway station dating from before Independence. This started changing from around the time Vadnagar’s most famous resident, Narendra Modi, occupied the state chief minister’s chair, and then moved on to become Prime Minister. Vadnagar is now a municipality, with several projects, institutes and...