In India, monkeys aren’t always viewed particularly fondly. As Philip Lutgendorf, an emeritus historian at the University of Iowa, wrote in a 1997 paper, the animals “are most often treated as ...

A nationwide blackout in Sri Lanka has been blamed on a monkey that intruded into a power station south of Colombo. Power is ...

Hindus revere them as a symbol of the monkey deity Hanuman, whose simian army helped rescue Sita, the god Rama's wife, from a demon king, according to a Sanskrit epic. Langurs' black faces and ...

A monkey has been blamed for triggering a nationwide blackout in Sri Lanka after the animal intruded into a power station ...

he added. Another X user, Sreeni R, posted an illustration of the monkey god Hanuman, who according to the Hindu epic Ramayana, set Sri Lanka on fire during a war with the demon king Ravana who ...

"Only in Sri Lanka can a monkey knock out the entire nation’s electricity." While these highlight the country's energy security struggles, there were also memes linked to Hanuman from the Hindu ...

The Jakhoo or Jakhu temple in Shimla is an ancient temple visited by several Hindu devotees all year round. Dedicated to the monkey God Hanuman, the temple hosts a big festival on Dushera every year.