Six Months of President George Bush’s

Today is the six month anniversary of the tragic September 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington DC last year. It seems an appropriate moment to reflect on the cause of this terrible attack on America. Here in the United States there is a feeling that America is a peaceful God-loving country and this attack on America was completely unjust an unwarranted.   ...Read More

Biggest Ever IRM Times Square Kirtana!

I can hardly begin to describe how ecstatic the kirtana was. Vatsala Prabhu and I took turns leading and the devotees were all absorbed in chanting the Holy Name. Madhusudana Prabhu distributed many books. Hundreds of invitations to the Sunday feast were given out as well. Vedaguhya Prabhu’s wife had prepared about one hundred rice krispie sweets which were all distributed.Many people joined the kirtana to dance with the devotees and   ...Read More

Prabhupada Sankirtana Society Festival at Tompkins Square Park

On June 19 Kapindra Swami’s Prabhupada Sankirtana Society held their annual Prabhupada Festival in Tompkins Square Park. This years festival was a grand success with over a thousand plates of prasadam and hundreds of books distributed. Everything was accompanied by the constant chanting of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra. One old resident of the Lower East Side came up to me and said he hadn’t heard chanting like this since Prabhupada was   ...Read More

Sri Sri Nitai Gauranga Mandir of Manhattan Now Expanding

With our tiny storefront temple on Avenue B we haven’t been able to take care of the people properly. However, by Lord Caitanya’s grace that can now be dramatically changed. The Supreme Personality of Godhead has just made the next door strorefront available to us doubling our size.   ...Read More

City of New York To Honour Srila Prabhupada

34 years ago the worldwide Hare Krishna movement was inaugurated by Srila Prabhupada under a certain tree in Tompkins Square Park, New York City. There he led a public Kirtan that was to engulf the neighbourhood at the time, and then grow into a movement that was to make ‘Hare Krishna’ a household word.   ...Read More

New York Hare Krishna Street Chanting Brings Devotees Back To Srila Prabhupada

IRM devotees are now doing Harinama 4 times a week in New York. The Saturday night Harinamas have grown and over 20 devotees now come to join in. And these are devotees who were unknown to us - they just show up!   ...Read More

Indian Press Glorifies New York IRM

Times haven’t been exactly smooth for the Hare Krishna cult these past few years, the Iskcon boat being rocked off and on by controversies ranging from child abuse, rape, suicide and bitter factional fights in India and other parts of the world. But here’s good news at last.   ...Read More