A Day of Solidarity (standard:Fan Fiction, 1048 words)
Author: Juggernaut	Added: Dec 27 2012	Views/Reads: 2956/1960	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
A day on APril 18, a stray monkey wonders into a New England town making APril 18 a memorable day to celebrate Lord Hanuman and Paul Revere. Read the connection.

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“We need to capture the animal before it enters a home or worse 

bite somebody,” the mayor looked helpless.  The monkey business was the 

most challenging moment in his career as a mayor for the last 6 years. 

Sam Ram is a religious man; to understand an unusual event like 

this, he tends to seek help from his Hindu faith.  He quickly checked 

his smart phone for Hindu auspicious events to see a connection only to 

find that the birthday of Lord Hanuman, for the year fell on April 18. 

A monkey from nowhere all of a sudden appears on April 18, the day Lord 

Hanuman was born, it was an unusual coincidence.  “There must be divine 

significance,” screamed Sam at the crowd. 

“What significance?” shouted somebody from the crowd. 

“Lord Hanuman the most revered monkey god of Hindus was born on 

April 18. Lord Hanuman was responsible for alerting the people that 

Lord Rama's wife Sita was in captivity at the palace of evil King 

Ravana.  This started the greatest epic war of Ramayana between good 

and evil,” Sam Ram concluded his emotional outburst with nobody in the 

crowd has a clue what he was saying. 

“Wait a minute, today  on April 18 in 1775,  Paul Revere took 

midnight ride to Concord to warn  “Redcoats are coming,” that started 

our revolution war against England, Do you see the connection between 

Lord Hanuman and Paul Revere in starting heroic wars on April 18 to set 

the people free,” a tall and lanky history professor in the crowd tried 

to explain. 

“Then what shall we do with the monkey?” asked the Mayor. 

“I will adopt the monkey,” Sam Ram came forward placing his 

hands on his heart. 

“But why?” shouted few people in the crowd looking at each with 

bewilderment. 

“I consider the sudden appearance of monkey from nowhere on 

this historic day of April 18, signifies a divine intervention when I 

look deep into my Hindu faith,” Sam Ram spoke like a leader looking 

around the gathering from top of the City Hall steps. 

“Divine intervention towards what end?” asked the local 

Lutheran priest among the crowd. 

“This monkey is god sent to jump start our town economy,” Sam 

Ram moved close to the monkey on the steps of the City Hall, while the 

mayor and rest of the crowd stood on lower steps below. 

“What you name the monkey?” asked a boy in the crowd. 

“Umm, ‘Hans for Hanuman' said Sam Ram. 

A crew from animal control unit shot the monkey with a 

tranquilizer to capture and give necessary vaccinations before 

releasing it to Sam Ram. 

Sam Ram was happy for his quick business decision to adopt the 

monkey and kept in a cage at his hotel lobby.   The town council 

designated April 18 a day of solidarity to celebrate both Lord Hanuman 

and Paul Revere. 

As a symbolic gesture, Hans the monkey was made the Grand 

Marshall  of the parade to become a hit with thousands of tourists on 

every April 18, Ram Sam became a permanent fixture in the parade 

sitting next to Hans in a vintage car.  The tourists couldn't get 

enough figurines of Lord Hanuman in various poses; one flying in the 

sky with a burning torch and another showing off his bulging muscles 

were sold briskly.  Figurines of Paul Revere riding the horse were 

equally in demand.  Children bought posters of Hans wearing fancy 

clothing and others riding a bike. The mayor couldn't be happier to 

collect the windfall sales tax on every April 18. 

With all the hotel rooms in town booked solid for the 

event  and tourists filling up the restaurants and  vendors doing brisk 

business selling the figurines, Sam Ram riding  high during the parade 

started  chanting  “Jai Hanuman, Jai Revere, jai Hans,” patting  the 

back of Hans busy eating a banana . 


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