ISKCON

For years in the Times Square and Grand Central subway stations, A Korean Christian preacher lady and her gang of fundamentalists have stationed themselves in front of Hare Krishna chanting gathering while hurling Christian dogma at them. Sometimes the police have had to intervene. But now the HKs took to dancing around her while chanting [...]

The attack on ISKCON TEMPLE at Potiya, Chittagong in Islamic Bangladesh was horrific. The night of 5th July was a terrible  for the devotees of the ISKCON Temple at Potiya, Chittagong, Bangladesh. It’s a holy land because it is the place where the intimate associates of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Shrila Vasudeva Dutta and Shrila Mukunda Dutta [...]

ISKCON, or the “Hare Krishna movement”, became a major cultural and religious phenomenon in the 1970s, effectively introducing the Krishna bhakti cult at global level and giving immense popularity to ethical vegetarianism and to the traditional Indian scriptures Bhagavad gita and Bhagavata purana. However, with the disappearance of Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the founder of ISKCON [...]

Mathura: The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) is doing the ground breaking ceremony at Mathura, the birth place of Lord Krishna, to build the world’s tallest temple. It will be a 700 feet high skyscraper spread over an area of 5.5 acres and also have 70 floors. The ISKCON is hoping to complete the [...]

“On Hinduism is a treat. For those who already know and admire Wendy Doniger’s work, this is a handy (if hefty) compendium of many of her essays…. For those who are reading her for the first time, the book is a marvellous introduction to the multiple ways that Hinduism can be approached and understood through [...]