By Madhava Smullen for ISKCON News on 4 Feb 2011Despite a dire economic situation in the U.S., the North American branch of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust—ISKCON’s publishing arm—saw sales soar last year, its best since 2004. Despite a dire economic situation in the U.S., the North American branch of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust—ISKCON’s publishing arm—saw […]

By Richard Auxier for Pew Research Center on 31 Jan 2011With massive protests threatening to upend the three-decades-long reign of President Hosni Mubarak, the world has been captivated by the events in Egypt. With massive protests threatening to upend the three-decades-long reign of President Hosni Mubarak, the world has been captivated by the events in […]

By Sesa Das for ISKCON News on 28 Jan 2011Equality imposed by force would achieve nothing, and do much harm. Those who combined both cruel hearts and sharp minds would soon find ways of making themselves rich again. Worse still, the rich whose gold was taken away would feel bitter and resentful; while the poor […]

By Madhava Smullen for ISKCON News on 29 Jan 2011The show, entitled “A Marriage of Art,” included thirty-six landscape and figurative paintings by both artists, as well as ten of Vrindavana and four large paintings of Lord Krishna, which the couple collaborated to produce. Over one hundred people attended the reception for a new art […]

By Madhava Smullen, Photos by Manjari Smullen on 29 Jan 2011Bhakti-lata Dasi is typing away busily at her laptop, absorbed in composing one of the 15 to 40 letters she writes to inmates at prisons across the US every month. But she looks up, smiling, happy to talk to ISKCON News about the service she’s […]

Four dedicated devotees took the vow of sannyasa—renounced, traveling celibate monks—in 2010, bringing the number of ISKCON sannyasis up to eighty-four. Four dedicated devotees took the vow of sannyasa—renounced, traveling celibate monks—in 2010, bringing the number of ISKCON sannyasis up to eighty-four.Devamrita Dasa, Makhanlal Dasa, and Siddharta Dasa, all based in India, became Bhakti Rasamrita […]

By Madhusudana Das for Creation on 20 Jan 2011After recently discovering on Facebook a photo of a beautiful bas-relief sculpture of Jagannatha, I just had to find out more. It wasn’t just the artistry that drew me in, but more than anything, the location of the piece – by a railway bridge on Brick Lane. […]

By Sesha DasPolitical trash talking is not becoming of us. It never has been. It never will be. Therefore, I am greatly relieved by the sudden reemergence of civility in American public debate. Hopeful this trend will last. As a concerned and interested citizen I feel compelled to do my part, not only help the […]

My sister-in-law Chandra had come to stay with us on January 1. She had plans of visiting the ISKCON Temple at Chowpatty the next day morning. Chandra goes to the temple every Sunday. I was keen to go with her on this Sunday and luckily for me, I could make it. Read more…

By Madhava Smullen for ISKCON News on 14 Jan 2010Perhaps the most interesting new trend for ISKCON devotees to note, however, is the recent proliferation of devotee yoga teachers. So how did they end up as yoga teachers, and is it simply a way of earning a living for them, or is there more to […]