Desicritics Comments on India's Monkey Business

Comment by fahrrad

Sat, 7 Mar 2009 04:20:31 EST

Dies ist ein gro�er Ort. Ich m�chte hier noch einmal.

Comment by Deepti Lamba

Sat, 3 Nov 2007 08:59:36 EDT

Feeding rogue monkeys on roads is hazardous for obvious reasons but people are either ignorant or plain stupid, it got nothing to do with religious sentiments.

Comment by A. S. Mathew

Sat, 3 Nov 2007 06:58:44 EDT

Mr. Prasad, I didn't say that the people were feeding the monkeys first, then the children. I am sure that the parents feed the children. Please don't read blank pages.

Comment by A. S. Mathew

Sat, 3 Nov 2007 06:48:25 EDT

Mr. Prasad, I am simply telling the truth. I visit India more often for various purpose. What solution you prescribe for this problem? It will be a religious issue, however the problem has to be addressed someday. Monkeys will do everything unexpected when they get hungry.

Comment by Prasad

Sat, 3 Nov 2007 06:43:23 EDT

Hi Matthew you are exaggerating, no body feeds Monkeys first and then their own Kids. Typical Missi-propaganda By the way what were you doing on the roadside from Punjab to Himachal? Got it. Handing out your Evangelical Literature? Do you?

Comment by smallsquirrel

Sat, 3 Nov 2007 03:54:17 EDT

hey, prasad... no need to be so nasty.

Comment by Prasad

Sat, 3 Nov 2007 02:58:04 EDT

Hi Matthew probably you were on your Evangelical mission, its normal for you to hate Monkeys, one God less among 333 Million right?

Comment by A. S. Mathew

Fri, 2 Nov 2007 17:16:30 EDT

The vice-mayor of Delhi while relaxing at the balcony of his home in Delhi was attacked by a few monkeys. While avoiding the sharp attack, he fell down and later on died at the hospital due to head injuries. While I was making a road trip from Delhi through Hariyana, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, I was quite surprised to see the thousands of monkeys on the road size as if waiting to welcome somebody. They were fed by many people, and the sad thing is that the children look skinny and pale and the parents feed the fat monkeys as if a divine call. If the monkey population is not controlled someway, it will create serious problems to human beings by way of spreading diseases, besides unexpected attack.

Comment by temporal

Fri, 2 Nov 2007 14:21:06 EDT

harold: another informative article chuckled at this: It is not just the nuisance factor of having too many monkeys around too many human beings. shouldn't it be the other way round? ss: this sanjay is the whining sunjay - the one who introduces himself as the 'non-religious atheist' for crying out loud so do not blaspheme!

Comment by Deepti Lamba

Fri, 2 Nov 2007 13:24:38 EDT

Sanjay, quit monkeying around or else rabies shots!!;)

Comment by Ledzius

Fri, 2 Nov 2007 07:03:47 EDT

Aaman- does one get arrested for money chanting then?

Comment by smallsquirrel

Fri, 2 Nov 2007 02:14:26 EDT

and once again, sanjay is not happy unless he is contrarian, annoying and pissing on someone else's parade. you complain about off topic ranting on your own posts but then you go and do it to others! anyway... I like the monkeys in my neighborhood. then again, I have bars on my windows, and screens, and I never leave the balcony doors open. I have seen, however, the havoc they cause in neighbors' houses.

Comment by Sanjay

Fri, 2 Nov 2007 01:36:17 EDT

And you just know that the ethnic-baiting Leftists would have to insert their obligatory reference to "Hindu fundamentalists". They don't feel happy unless they can take that jab. As I recall it was Indira Gandhi who pioneered the art of forced sterilizations -- on human beings -- during her illegal 1977 Emergency, which the Left wholeheartedly supported. Little bit of a selective memory there, pal?

Comment by Aaman

Fri, 2 Nov 2007 01:09:22 EDT

Money's causing a lot of havoc everywhere, sterilize all the money!

Comment by Jay

Fri, 2 Nov 2007 00:55:45 EDT

Harold: If one of those Hindu fundamentalist groups gets a copy of your post you might get your effigy burnt for suggesting sterilization of monkeys...after all they will claim all monkeys are forms of Hanuman etc. The term "India's "monkey" business" has a pun between the lines! Fun article this and quite an interesting topic to write about. I had no idea moneys were causing such havoc in India! :)

Comment by Aaman

Fri, 2 Nov 2007 00:46:00 EDT

I think the monkeys want a piece of the development boom:)