The world of Hanuman Mandir
India, May 9 -- One monkey is swinging from a tree branch. One is scooping out the fleshy remains of a discarded melon. One is clinging tightly to her little baby.
Peaceful and amiable, these monkeys loiter all day long in the plaza outside the Hanuman Mandir of Connaught Place, on Baba Kharak Singh Marg. Dotted with peepal trees, the plaza teems with men, women, children (and monkeys!) throughout the day, even late into the night. The tiled ground is also dotted with stalls offering henna services, palm reading, or selling pakori and kachori. The temple to Hanuman stands in a corner. The plaza is so strongly identified by this temple that even the underground subway is named after it.
But the plaza has two more temples. They too add to the...
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