Lord Hanuman - the Monkey King, who helped Lord Ram in the fight against evil is revered in India and so are his subjects - the monkeys, so in places they do tend to run riot. One of them is Ayodhya where they are everywhere.
Unlike in the hills of West Bengal though these ones don’t hiss and snarl when you pass them - though point a camera at them and they run away - always - very spooky.
One that we saw had scabies - Aanant phoned his vet to see what the problem might be. Basically he had no hair at all - just wondering around in his skin. As for taking what they can get - we were stopped at the place where they where carving the new mosque and these monkeys had no compunction against getting fuit that we handily put on the car.
Even with babies in tow.
On to a different story we are going to do - we passed this field where these women / girls were working - whilst the boys flew kites. Using mere Roman technology the girl can be no older than 10 and worked 12+ hours a day in the field. India really does need to pick itself up by the scruff of the neck if its going to improve things for the general population - is that going to happen though? Hmmm.
