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Too much monkey business in New Delhi
11.14.07
New Delhi Journal
Monkeys in the Parks, Monkeys in the Palace
By AMELIA GENTLEMAN
Published in the New York Times: November 14, 2007
NEW DELHI, Nov. 13 — The authorities here managed to do very little about the city’s soaring wild monkey population — until the deputy mayor toppled from his terrace to his death as he tried to fend off a gang of the animals.
The official, Sawinder Singh Bajwa, 52, was reading a paper on his balcony on a Sunday morning in late October when four monkeys appeared. As he brandished a stick to scare them away, he lost his balance and fell, his son said.
While publicly lamenting the accident, the mayor’s office fought off criticism for failing to remove the aggressive troops of monkeys that coexist uneasily alongside humans.
The phenomenon is a side effect of India’s rapid urbanization. As Delhi expands, with half a million new residents moving in every year, the green areas in and around the capital, which for centuries have been the monkeys’ habitat, grow smaller. Their territory encroached on, many monkeys uproot to settle in the city center.
Particularly irritating for the authorities is the monkeys’ attachment to some of the capital’s most prestigious monuments. While most of the bleaker manifestations of the anarchic expansion — the slums, the urban squalor — are hidden from the government’s showpiece center, the monkey invasion is visible at the heart of the leafy city of New Delhi, remarked upon by every visiting foreign dignitary.
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