including the epic Mahabharata and various Puranas (a genre of Hindu literature). “The Hanuman Purana, the story of Hanuman’s birth, names Vayu, the god of the wind, as the monkey god’s ...

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 ...

One of the drawings in question depict the elephant god Ganesh with a nude woman seated on his knee, and the other features an apparently nude rendition of the monkey god Hanuman holding a naked ...

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

Like Madan Kumar Saini, who runs a sweet shop next to an ancient Hindu temple dedicated to the monkey-god Hanuman. About a decade ago, he says, monkeys attacked a woman nearby while she was on her ...

He was told that it was Hanuman, the Hindu monkey god. But what was a huge Hindu god doing in the streets of modern Muslim Indonesia? The answer is, I think, a fascinating story of tolerance and ...

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

He was told that it was Hanuman, the Hindu monkey god. But what was a huge Hindu god doing in the streets of modern Muslim Indonesia? The answer is, I think, a fascinating story of tolerance and ...

"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 ...

Salman Khan is instantly loveable as Pawan, a devout Indian who worships the Hindu monkey god Hanuman. He cracks the audience up as he bows to every monkey he sees, dresses up as a woman and stays ...