{"id":74265,"date":"2019-04-27T06:41:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T04:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/184473632856"},"modified":"2019-04-27T06:41:57","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T04:41:57","slug":"arjun-singh-in-1989-i-had-just-returned-to-canada-from-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=74265","title":{"rendered":"Arjun Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74264\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads72\/tumblr_pqlrohFT7c1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\" width=\"405\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_pqlrohFT7c1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg 405w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_pqlrohFT7c1sbj0vuo1_500-105x187.jpg 105w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Arjun Singh.<br \/>\nIn 1989, I had just returned to Canada from a six-year term in New Delhi, serving there as the temple president. I would walk the halls of McGill University and distribute books to students. One Indian student named Arjun Singh was quite intrigued by my activities and eventually got a book from me.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to summer 2017. I was organizing the Festival of India in a large Park in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada and intended to invite the local mayor. When I got to the mayor\u2019s office, I was ushered in by the receptionist. And who was sitting behind the desk but Arjun Singh.<\/p>\n<p>At first we didn\u2019t recognize each other, but as the conversation went on he said, \u201cWere you distributing books at McGill university in 1989? Hey, aren\u2019t you Kripanidhi from the Hare Krishnas?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since then Arjun has always offered help in spreading Lord Caitanya\u2019s sankirtan<br \/>\nmovement in this area. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!<\/p>\n<p>Krpanidhi Dasa: In the photo, it\u2019s myself and Arjun at Festival of India summer of 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/cce3c604aa0dff1df5d716e26313a7fa\/tumblr_pqlrohFT7c1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Arjun Singh.<br \/>\nIn 1989, I had just returned to Canada from a six-year term in New Delhi, serving there as the temple president. I would walk the halls of McGill University and distribute books to students. One Indian student named Arjun Singh was quite intrigued by my activities and eventually got a book from me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[152],"class_list":["post-74265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media","tag-nectar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74267,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74265\/revisions\/74267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}