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Delhi, India


Brian Azouz here! Working on Nepalese visa. October is supposed to be beautiful in the Himalayas.

permalink written by  brianazouz on September 21, 2008 from Delhi, India
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Brian Azouz - wild Delhi tale

Delhi, India


Hi all, Brian Azouz here! Just read the wildest tale about a politician in Delhi and monkeys. Check it out!!

The deputy mayor of the Indian capital Delhi has died a day after being attacked by a horde of wild monkeys.
SS Bajwa suffered serious head injuries when he fell from the first-floor terrace of his home on Saturday morning trying to fight off the monkeys.

The city has long struggled to counter its plague of monkeys, which invade government complexes and temples, snatch food and scare passers-by.

The High Court ordered the city to find an answer to the problem last year.

Solution elusive

One approach has been to train bands of larger, more ferocious langur monkeys to go after the smaller groups of Rhesus macaques.

The city has also employed monkey catchers to round them up so they can be moved to forests.

But the problem has persisted.

Culling is seen as unacceptable to devout Hindus, who revere the monkeys as a manifestation of the monkey god Hanuman, and often feed them bananas and peanuts.

Urban development around the city has also been blamed for destroying the monkeys' natural habitat.

Mr Bajwa, a member of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is survived by his wife and a son, according to the Press Trust of India news agency.

Isn't that just crazy!!!

Well, just killing time here in Delhi while waiting for my visa.



permalink written by  brianazouz on September 28, 2008 from Delhi, India
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