VILLAGE OF TWINS

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 The village of kodinhi situated about 35 km south of calicut is home to about 2000 families .

• The village has a muslim majority and is know for its very high rate of birth of twin birth .

•  As of 2009 the village boasted of 220 sets of twins (440 individuals) and two sets of triplets offically .

•  A local doctor though belives this number to be higher in the range of 300 to 350 pairs  .

• He says this phenomenon began three generations ago and the number have been increasing exponentially with each passing year .

• Another fact that bucks the trend is that even women from kodinhi who are married off to faraway places have exceptionally high rate of twin births .

•  The fact that a large percentage of these twins are under the age of 20 , the potential for mischief is enormous , the most common being that they often swap classes in school .