The after-dinner speech, by Krsna Ksetra Prabhu, at the ISKCON Studies Conference at Prabhupada-desh, in Italy (held from July 27th - 30th), summed up the spirit of the conference, entitled "ISKCON and Interpretation: Context, History, Theory, and Practice."

During the 9 days' pragram, 500 thousands plates of Prasadam have been distributed. On July 16, more than 100 thousand people attended the Ratha. It was a very colorful festival and the streets of Dhaka came to a stand still when the Rathas were passing.

I had lunch on the run (tasty samosas from an Indian place near my hotel) and learned that there was a big Indian festival (Ratha Yatra – Jagannath) that afternoon at Place Republic.

Bhaktimarga Swami's faded salmon-pink robes clash with the light-green shrubs and dark evergreen trees to his side. His brown Crocs are almost camouflaged in the dirt along the highway's shoulder.

On Monday, July 16, 2007, ISKCON Baroda once again, for the twenty sixth year running, observed the annual Jagannath Rathayatra festival on the "Rathayatra day", the Second day of month of "Aashaadh", during the fortnight of the waxing moon

More than an estimated million people yesterday witnessed the world famous Rath Yatra, the annual chariot festival, with devotees driven to a frenzy to catch a glimpse of the chariots. Residents clad in saffron and foreigners, members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon), were part of the sea of people.

They invited my father to give a taste of Indian food, music, dance, and culture and philosophy to the employees of USDA/NRCS. First of all our family presented live music while chanting Hare Krishna Mahamantra after I explained them Mantra meditation.

I was quoted as a Krishna conscious spiritual authority regarding the question of the nagging homeless problem prevalent in the US. The author of the article, veteran writer Sam Slovik, said that Nrsimhananda's comments changed the entire way in which he viewed the problem.

This summer I plunged to go across the ocean and to a neighbouring country to spread the word of Lord Chaitanya.To share my experience with you all and to instill the feeling to serve the vaishnavas is my motive.

In this brief blog I would like to take the opportunity of introducing you to three Vaishnavas who are doing an excellent job in getting some of our messages out to a broader public. In some cases that means thought-provoking pieces on foundational dharmic principles, in other cases it means specific teachings on the practise of bhakti.

Two months prior to 2006 Gita Jayanti festival, I requested inmates, who regularly write to me, to write down a few lines about how they received the 1st copy of Bhagavad Gita As It Is and what they learned from the Bhagavad Gita and what are their favorite verses.

INMATES at a jail in southern India are eating so well many are reluctant to leave and other convicted criminals are trying to move in.

Located two hundred kilometers southeast of Bangalore, Salem is home to a very enthusiastic group of ISKCON devotees, mostly young brahmacharis, who have recently relocated to a new property, a three-acre plot of land, just a half kilometer from Periyaar University.

History will be created when a Hindu prayer will be recited at the opening of the US Senate in Washington DC on July 12. There are an estimated two million Indian Americans in the US. Followers of Hindu groups like ISKCON may add up to another one million.

With no trust fund in sight, however, it helps to have a Plan B, and Govinda’s Vegetarian Cuisine is quite capable of keeping an entire mass of bootstrapping babies healthy and happy. It does so with a rotating repertoire of vegetarian and vegan dishes, a rarity in Honolulu.

Shaving up, wearing a dhoti, chanting on the streets and attending mangala arati at 4.30 a.m. are some of the things experienced by new Krishna devotees, and Marc Ellis well known TV personality and former All Black rugby player, did just that from Friday, May 25 to Sunday, May 27 at the Radha Giridhari temple in Kumeu.

Washington, D.C. – The peaceful Krishna movement finds itself under constant attack for its ownership of property that it rightfully purchased. Its recognition status in question – as are the statuses of many non-Muslim and non-Orthodox religious communities – the Krishna community awakens at five in the morning to find police and demolition men there to destroy their homes.

This leap year, we observe Purushottama Adika Mas, or the auspicious leap month. In Vrndavana, it runs along the same benefits as Kartika Month, with benefits of one's austerities thousands of times more than usual.