From every corner of Chanchal's life peers a monkey: The beggars wandering around accompanied by a performing monkey in his hometown; Hanuman, the brave monkey from the Ramayana epic, rushing to the aid of the hero Rama, who together with the monkey army sets out to rescue Rama’s wife Sita from her imprisonment in the palace of the king of demons Ravana; the monkeys that stole the hats from the hat merchant who fell asleep under a tree,  a story from the animal parables of the Panchatantra; the three wise monkeys whose statue Gandhi kept at his ashram.