November 2019

Governor DeSantis lights the lamp at the Diwali celebration in his mansion Nandini Kishori Dasi, Director of the Motel Gita project, presented Florida Governor Ron DeSantis with a full Srimad-Bhagavatam set during the first ever official Diwali event at the Governor’s Mansion in Tallahassee on November 6th. DeSantis is a Yale and Harvard graduate, and […]

Gopal Lila Das speaks at the U.N. earlier this year An ISKCON devotee has been nominated co-chair of the UN Multifaith Advisory Council on Religion and Development. Gopal Lila Das (Gopal Patel) is Director of the Bhumi Project, an environmental effort of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies. He also co-leads The Sacred Ecology Forum […]

Murali Gopal (left) with two Russian devotee scientists Nari Dasi and Damodar Pandit Das in Saint Petersburg, Russia. How can devotees trained in science and other academic disciplines best use their education in Krishna’s service? This question inspired the Bhaktivedanta Institute for Higher Studies (BIHS) to sponsor an international conference last January on “Consciousness in […]

The book cover’s art design A new book ‘Leadership Lessons from the Bhagavad Gita,’ published by Sage Publisher wonderfully combines the two worlds of management and spirituality. The author Ace V. Simpson, a.k.a. Shri Prahlada Das is a well-known kirtaniya from Australia, but he is also a scholar with a Ph.D. and now teaches at […]

For the past twenty-five years, ISKCON Youth Ministry’s Manorama Das and his wife Jaya Sri Radhe Dasi have taken youth on tours across the US, Canada and Mexico, where they spread Krishna consciousness and get inspired themselves in the process. Since 2015, they’ve branched out to tour the Caribbean every two years. “The main reason […]