Talk:Ahmedabad

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	This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on February 23, 2007.
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Contents 1 ....bad 2 Watch out 3 Great Religious Diversity? 4 CONGRATULATIONS!!!

[edit] ....bad

Why do the cities ed in "bad" like Islamabad, Ahmedabad. etc... Is it something to do with the language? I presume it means cityTourskin 05:05, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

I cannot give you any source right now, but probably this suffix "-bad" comes from abad which in Urdu (and may be in Arabic) means a populated place. nagar is another suffix for many South Asian places. Nagar in Sanskrit means town. These are somewhat like "-ville" in many English speaking nations. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 05:52, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Yes, it translates as "City of Ahmed" (Sultan Ahmed Shah being the founder). As far as I know the suffix abad originates in Persian. Abecedare 09:22, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

The suffix 'abad' comes from Persian not Arabic. It means 'abode' or dwelling place not exactly 'city'. Maquahuitl 13:46, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Watch out

Featured articles have been vandalized lately. User:Jarex 5:00, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Great Religious Diversity?

As it is now, the article states that this city enjoys "great religious diversity." It seems to me that the majority of citizens are hindu. What constitutes great religious diversity? Diversity compared to what? 68.165.56.43 17:59, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] CONGRATULATIONS!!!

It's being a while since I logged into wikipedia. I was really surprised to see this page being a featured article. I am really really happy! It seems a nice start to the weekend.

CONGRATULATIONS (and Thanks) to all the contributers who made it to this level.

alren ^{(talk • contribs • count)} 22:16, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations to all the contributors and everyone who helped write this article. Proud day for an Amdavadi. I am sending this to all my friends. --Rev.bayes 23:12, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

I just logged in for 2 minutes yesterday to look at the article on the main page. It looked awesome :) I have gone through all the edits made yesterday. Mostly vandalism, but not as bad as I had expected. - Aksi_great (talk) 11:29, 24 February 2007 (UTC)