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, […]

By Vineet Chander for Om Sweet Om on 10 Feb 2010 Haiti is just the latest example of mass suffering in the material world.It is natural, though never pleasant, to question the workings of the Divine when we see (and feel, and weep over) suffering on a grand scale.    In the West, philosophers like […]

BY: BASU GHOSH DAS Feb 03, BARODA, INDIA (WVPB) — On Friday, January 29, 2010, ISKCON Juhu, Bombay celebrated its 30th annual Jagannath Rathayatra festival. The Rathayatra festival was inaugurated by local MLA (“Member of the Maharashtra Assembly”, the legislative branch of the Government of Maharashtra) Ashokbhau Jadhav, and Sri Dilip Patel, the Chairman of […]

By Madhava Smullen on 29 Jan 2010The Independent The I-Foundation—the leading Hindu charity behind the UK’s first and so far only Hindu state school—has already announced plans to build at least one secondary school within the next six years, with sites earmarked in North London and Leicester. Although the Krishna Avanti School only officially opened […]

By Deena Bandhu (das) ACBSP (Vrindavan – IN) On the 31st of January we had an incredible procession for Srila Prabhupada’s and ISKCON’s entrance into the Vrindavan Kumbha Mela with Srila Prabhupada riding regally on an elephant. Now in previous Kumbha Melas since we got Lokanatha Maharaja as an offical Mahanta, we have our place […]

By Krpamoya Das For thousands of years, all schools were ‘faith schools’…The critics of faith schools – and religion in general – have now had a few days to register their comments on the opening of the new Krishna-Avanti School in north London. They have not been silent. The Krishna-Avanti School is a very modern […]

Written by Madhava Smullen Hundreds of thousands of devotees, holy men and pilgrims will gather for the Vrindavana Kumbha Mela, taking a ceremonial dip in the sacred Yamuna River at Keshi Ghat on Saturday January 30th. The event is held once every twelve years, alongside the official Kumbha Mela, which rotates between the holy places […]

by Radha Mohan Das The Krishna Avanti School opened its doors to the press for the first time on Friday 29th January. The School is the first Voluntary Aided Hindu faith school in Britain and is also the most eco-friendly. The School, in the London borough of Harrow also marks the country’s first vegetarian state […]