[syriacus]

There can be truth in The Simpsons humor, all right.

Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, a small state in western India. He was named Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The word Gandhi means grocer, and generations earlier that had been the family occupation. But Gandhi's grandfather, father, and uncle had served as prime ministers to the princes of Porbandar and other tiny Indian states, and though lower caste, the Gandhis were middle-class, cultured, and deeply religious Hindu

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The name "Patel" means landlord in India, I've been told. So many people with the last name of Patel have bought or built motels in the U.S. that in the industry, motels are referred to now as Potels.