A monkey along with its baby walks on top of a gate at the ruins of the Feroz Shah Kotla mosque in New Delhi in this September 4, 2009 file photo. REUTERS/Parth Sanyal/Files
VARANASI, India (Reuters) - As India launches an $18 billion (13.18 billion pounds) plan to spread the information revolution to its provinces, the problems it faces are a holdover from the past - electricity shortages, badly planned, jam-packed cities, and monkeys.
The clash between the old world and the new is sharply in focus in the crowded 3,000-year-old holy city of Varanasi, where many devout Hindus come to die in the belief that doing so will give them salvation. Varanasi is also home to hundreds of macaque monkeys that live in its temples and are fed and venerated by devotees.
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