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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the Marvel's film Black Panther, M’Baku, the tribe's leader in Wakanda, shouts “Glory to Hanuman!” in the original English ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...