This part of Gujarat’s vast coastline has etched its name in history for its gory underworld past that has become folklore. Bollywood has made a film on a local bahubali woman, and Quentin Tarantino should be happy to script and direct one more on the lines of Kill Bill if he lays his hands on a storyline from the yesteryears of Porbandar.

For the record, Porbandar’s other historic identity is that of Mahatma Gandhi’s birthplace. Thankfully, the religious tourism circuit ensures that the Kirti Mandir, a memorial built around a heritage home where the Mahatma’s mother went through labour to deliver to the world a child who has been immortalised because of his ideology of non-violence.