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Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR’s international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world.<\/em><\/p>\n

Years ago, when I lived in Delhi, a madari \u2014 a monkey handler \u2014 and his two performing monkeys used to come to my neighborhood on a bicycle. I loved to see them but was unwilling to be a patron. It is illegal<\/a> to use monkeys for tricks in India, though the practice remains popular and authorities tend to look the other way.<\/p>\n

Usually, the grandparents in my neighborhood called out to the madari. They haggled with him over a few hundred rupees, and then for a few minutes, the madari made his pets salute, somersault, hug or pull each other’s tails. The kids spilled with laughs. The elders looked pleased too.<\/p>\n