Feb 26, BANGALORE, INDIA (KNOWLEDGE@WHARTON) — Each school day, more than a million children in 6,500 schools across seven Indian states eagerly await the vehicle that brings their midday meal. For many of them, the food provided by the Bangalore-based Akshaya Patra Foundation is their first, and perhaps only, meal of the day. The promise […]

By John Longhurst for Winnipeg Free Press on 20 Feb 2010 A priestess holds an olive-tree branch as she participates in a ceremony honouring Zeus, the king of the ancient Greek gods, at the Temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens. So far, God and religion haven’t come up in the media coverage of the Vancouver […]

By Gaurav SharmaFebruary 15th 2010, saw the graduation ceremony for the newest Bhaktisastri graduates at the Mayapur Institute (MI) Sri Dham Mayapur Campus. The ceremony was graced by many senior ISKCON leaders and educators. About 75 Students hailing from 34 different countries were welcomed with a very different type of invocation prayers led by Prema […]

By Sraddhadevi dasi February 14th, 2010 On February 14th, all members of ISKCON’s Governing Commission attending the Annual General Meeting in Mayapur, India assembled in the center of a construction zone. It was the construction zone of the long-awaited Temple of Vedic Planetarium (TOVP), a massive and impressive temple dedicated to displaying the Vedic view […]

By Yudhistir Krishna Das on 19 Feb 2010Hundreds of ash-covered men marching into the river along with soulful chants of Vedic hymns. A multitude of people from varied backgrounds, jostling in and out of their tents. The sight of lamps and flowers being offered into the river in a spiritually-surcharged atmosphere. Such activity characterizes the […]

Contessa Gayles woke up very, very early to meditate and hang out with Columbia’s Bhakti Club. After a 7:00 AM mantra meditation session, she sat down to talk with Gadadhara Pandit Dasa, the current—and first ever— Hindu chaplain at Columbia. They spoke about a typical day in the life of a Hare Krishna monk, and […]

By Ravindra Svarupa Dasa on 23 Jan 2010 The communist philosophy as it is now practiced is vague, but it can become perfect if they accept the conclusion of the Bhagavad-Gita—that Krishna is the supreme proprietor.    My beginning association with Krishna devotees offered me an extended sequence of astonishments.  It amazed me, for example, […]

By Madhava Smullen on 13 Feb 2010Spanish-style stucco walls, red tile floors, stained glass windows and rough cedar woodwork give Kalachandjis a unique ambiance.   With the economic crisis introduced in 2007 still reigning strong, most businesses continued to struggle in 2009. But if Kalachandji’s performance last year is anything to go by, the one thing […]

BY: SRESTHA DAS Feb 10, HARIDWAR, INDIA (SUN) — We would like to invite all the devotees to participate the Kumbhamela and the 500th Years Celebration of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s Sannyasa. This is first time in history we are getting this much big piece of land in Haridwar. ISKCON has 3.5 acres of land in a […]

By Sraddhadevi Dasi on 9 Feb 2010 The 2010 Annual General Meeting of the Governing Body Commission of ISKCON commenced Saturday morning in Sri Mayapur Dham with Bhakti Caru Maharaja offering the traditional guru-puja ceremony to ISKCON’s Founder-Acarya, Srila Prabhupada, while Ekalavya Prabhu led an enthusiastic and inspirational kirtan. This year’s GBC Chairman, Romapada Maharaja, […]