Team Dinner: Of Milk and Monkeys

We had a team dinner to wish our teammate (and my roommate) Neelima goodbye as she was heading back to the US. Our table got to talking about several strange Indian stories. The first was the story about the Hindu god Ganesh. All Hindu Indians keep Ganesh around there home. Apparently, one day, several people discovered (independently keep in mind) that if they fed their Ganesh milk, he would drink it. The word spread all over India and everyone began feeding their Ganesh milk. Someone at the table had successfully fed her Ganesh milk on that day. So random!

Another event the team recounted was Monkey Man. Apparently, there was a monkey man running around sneaking into people’s rooms at night and attacking them. People would be on the news showing their Monkey Man scars. In the heat of the scare, small hairy people were frequently beaten randomly by the public because they fit Monkey Man’s description. They never found Monkey Man. He is at large. The idea of a human monkey coming in and scratching me at night is super scary. “Where did this happen?” I asked. Everyone laughed- he apparently was terrorizing Delhi, the place I was set to go in a few days. Now I don’t have to worry about just terrorists, I have to worry about Monkey Man too!