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Two Societies, One Name: Briefing Note Accuses Madhu Pandit Dasa of ‘Double Fraud’ Over Bengaluru Temple

A six-page briefing note dated 8 October 2026 sets out the 1971 Mumbai Society’s case that Madhu Pandit Dasa revived…

6 days ago

ISKCON Salem’s July 2026 video shows carved stonework at its temple construction site

A 90-second film from ISKCON Salem offers a close view of carved stonework and ongoing work at the Sri Sri…

6 days ago

Exclusive: Inside the GBC’s Private VDG Committee Chat – 712 Messages on Female Diksha Gurus, Published in Full

For five weeks this summer, the representatives the GBC gathered to settle whether women may serve as initiating gurus in…

6 days ago

Reader traces the “expert at rape” wording of SB 4.25.41 to Visvanatha Cakravarti’s commentary and the Kama-sutra

A reader answers Akincana Gocara’s call for comment on the removed paragraph with a short philological note: the wording may…

1 week ago

Drutakarma Dasa, author of “Forbidden Archeology”, passes away in Los Angeles at 78

The co-author of “Forbidden Archeology” and a disciple of Srila Prabhupada since the 1970s spent his last years and months,…

1 week ago

Video: a 195-letter word from a Sanskrit poem, decoded by Sanskrit Garden

A Sanskrit teacher’s eight-minute video on a 195-letter compound from a sixteenth-century poem has passed 100,000 views in four days.…

1 week ago

ISKCON among religious bodies heard by parliamentary panel on India’s foreign-funding bill

Representatives of ISKCON were among the religious bodies heard by the parliamentary panel examining the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Bill,…

1 week ago

The book meant to bust the “Jahnava myth” about women gurus may have confirmed it, IISB scholar argues

Four months after Prāṇadā devī dāsī published a book arguing that women have long served as initiating gurus in the…

1 week ago

Former auditor of ritvik temple says he was given ₹72 lakh in jewellery before signing affidavit against Madhu Pandit Dasa, New Delhi Post reports

A Delhi news site has published the first detailed account of what the former auditor of the ritvik-led ISKCON Bengaluru…

1 week ago

Who Owns Bengaluru’s Hare Krishna Temple? Supreme Court Review Delayed Again as Judge Steps Aside and Former Auditor Retracts Affidavit

ISKCON Mumbai’s bid to overturn the May 2025 ruling that gave the Hare Krishna temple in Bengaluru to ISKCON Bangalore…

2 weeks ago