‘Vaanar Sena' In Sri Lanka

This Vaanar Sena arrived on the exotic island, Ceylon on the 26 th March, also Ram Navmi as per a significant Lunar Calendar.

- Niraj Shah

And this time it wasn’t trying to rescue anyone; was only there to ‘save’ and ‘retrieve’ the marvels of a dichotomous architecture whose organic nature was seemingly easy to comprehend. And this time it wasn’t a mean conquest; just an attack on the grey matter swiftly bombarded through all possible 6 senses. Yes the Sixth was more awakened.

The disciplined queues at the airport lost its fabric as the creative monkeys stepped afoot the homely and welcoming Kandalama that ironically stood like a fort across the still water. The offerings began and the feasts were never ending, The expanse of the laid out buffet tried well enough to match the length of this magnificently spread temporary abode. And the architecture once again contradicted itself with the permanence that reeked out of its every nook.

Then there were the natives. The whiskery gray langurs. And this time envy was the right feeling followed by an unknown awe; not just for feeling less-belonging, but by the knowledge that though they were welcoming of us humans, the apparently evolved species, they clearly claimed the land to be theirs. They were surely enjoying views far more evocative than what we saw. They saw, looked and teased. We saw, captured, captured, and just captured megabytes of still and video recordings.