I spent about a week in Udaipur, a relatively small but bustling little tourist spot. Everyone in town knows everyone else. As I befriended a local 25-year-old rickshaw driver I began to learn the town's characters, too. The kid whose dad stars in Bollywood movies. The crazy guy people steer clear of (and who happened to be the guy who came to my aid after being bitten by the rabid dog, and who subsequently took me to the world's scariest hospital, a place he was apparently intimately acqainted with). Most interestingly, though, in small Indian towns everyone also knows the local cows. "Oh, that's the pregnant cow." "That's a really stupid cow." "Oh! See that cow? Very, very smart!" "That cow has a huge...When he was younger all the female cows would run from him..."
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