What makes Hanuman angry today?
The angry looking Monkey-God, Hanuman, is everywhere. Till about couple of years back he was not much visible in your everyday life. In fact, today, I saw him in the car in front of me, as soon as I left my apartment complex. Then I saw couple of him at the first traffic signal, and many more on my way to the office. It made me think, why is he portrayed angrily? And more importantly why are people increasingly falling in love with his angry avatar? Hanuman was always pictured as a gentle and submissive god. The traditional image of his has a sense of calm on his face, folded hands, or flying peacefully holding a mountain in his palm. The creator of the ‘new-look’ Hanuman, Karan Acharya, said in an interview, he designed this image for his friends, and the intention was designing a Hanuman with an attitude. Looking at the volume of google searches happening for the image, the popular interpretation of ‘attitude’ has been ‘angry’. Below are few of my thoughts