ISKCON News: Delhi [pg. 1]

India Air Pollution at 'Unbearable Levels', Delhi Minister Says

An Indian health ministry official said the city's pollution monitors did not have enough digits to accurately record pollution levels, which he called a "disaster".

World Record for Largest Addiction Awareness Festival Set by ISKCON

A world record for “Largest Addiction Awareness Festival” was awarded in the event by World Book of Records, London, to Gopal Krishna Goswami, ISKCON GBC, in presence of Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Unioun Health Minister.

UDGAAR 2019 in Delhi to Create World Record for Largest Drug Awareness Lesson

The theme for this year’s festival is ‘Anti-Addiction: Making India Addiction Free’. With this, ISKCON hopes to inspire youngsters to realize their true potential in a clean, green and progressive India. The annual festival will bring in a mix of academics, dignitaries and over 8000 youngsters together to inspire, learn and celebrate life.

ISKCON India Plants Trees, Cleans Rivers for World Environment Day

On June 5^th– World Environment Day – ISKCON India partnered with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) for the first time, for a nationwide effort. “The Indian office of the UNEP realized the potential of engaging spiritual organizations, and reached out to us,” says ISKCON India Communications Director Yudhistira Govinda Das.

Speech by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi at ISKCON Delhi

Full speech by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi at ISKCON Delhi on February 26, 2019, at the occassion of unveiling the largest Bhagavad-gita in the world.

Indian Prime Minister Modi Unveils 800 Kg Gita at Delhi Temple

Dubbed “The Astounding Bhagavad-gita,” the book measures 2.80 x 2.00 meters (9 x 6.5 ft) and is billed by its creators at the Mediterranean branch of the BBT as “the largest principal sacred text ever printed.”

ISKCON India Communications Teams Learn From Experts at Annual Conference

Thirty-five devotees participated, including communications directors from various states and cities, temple presidents, and volunteers from the “Midday Meal” school food relief program.

ISKCON Member Selected as KAICIID International Fellow

ISKCON India’s Director of Communications, Yudhistir Govinda Das, was earlier this month chosen by the King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID) as one of its twenty International Fellows for the year 2019, to promote inter-religious dialogue with the aim of preventing and resolving conflicts.

ISKCON Leaders Call On The Prime Minister of India

Gopal Krishna Goswami updated the Prime Minister with the various programs and activities being carried out by ISKCON – in India and internationally. He invited the Prime Minister to unveil the world’s largest Bhagavad Gita which was designed and printed in Italy by a dedicated team of devotees led by Madhu Sevita Das.

ISKCON Delhi Initiates "Value Awareness Campaign", Organizing a Festival for 6,000 Youngsters

The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), celebrated an annual Mega Youth Fest UDGAAR – “An Expression of Goodness and Joy’’, on October 14^th, 2018, at the Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in Delhi. It marked the initiation of their “Value Awareness Campaign”.

BJP The Ruling Indian Political Party Appreciates ISKCON Food Relief of Haryana

ISKCON Food Relief Foundation (IFRF) provides midday meals to 250,000 children of more than 2,000 government schools in the four districts of Haryana- Gurugram, Palwal, Kurukshetra and Faridabad. The main objective of IFRF is to provide healthy and nutritious food to the children which helps them in physical and mental development.

Largest Commercial Enterprise of India Signs Letter of Intent with ISKCON Food Relief Foundation, Haryana

Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL), the largest commercial enterprise in India joined hands with ISKCON Food Relief Foundation, Haryana.

Peter Cosgrove Australian Governor General Visits ISKCON New Delhi

Due to the arrival of the Australian royalty in an entourage of four cars and a Mercedes limo, the main thoroughfare (Rajadhirsen Marga) adjacent to ISKCON's Radha Partha-sarathi Mandir, was blocked off. Sir Peter Cosgrove, along with his wife, Lady Cosgrove, was the first ever Governor General of Australia to visit an ISKCON center,

Mahaprabhu Das Visits Indian Prime Minister Modi

Mahaprabhu Das presented the Prime Minister with a copy of the book Forms of Devotion - The Spiritual in Indian Art, a two-volume set published by MOSA.

Vice President of India Calls Srila Prabhupada an “Ambassador of Indian Civilization”

The Vice President of India, Mr. Venkaiah Naidu, inaugurated ISKCON's East West Cultural Festival in New Delhi yesterday. The event also saw the Indian premiere of the film Hare Krishna!, written and directed by Yadubara Das and Visakha Dasi.

ISKCON Participates in Inaugurating Indo-Iranian Interfaith Dialogue

Over two hundred guests including spiritual leaders, scholars, university students and journalists came together last week at the India International Center in New Delhi to participate in the inaugural session of a two day dialogue between spiritual leaders and scholars from India and Iran on the theme of “Spirituality in Hinduism and Islam”.

India Just Banned All Forms of Disposable Plastic In Its Capital

India’s capital city Delhi has introduced a ban on disposable plastic. Cutlery, bags, cups and other forms of single-use plastic were prohibited by the National Green Tribunal (NGT).

US Ambassador Visits Delhi Temple; Distributes Prasada to Children

On November 7^th, US Ambassador to India, Mr. Richard Verma, visited Sri Sri Radha Parthasarathi temple in Delhi. After offering pushpanjali to Srila Prabhupada and an arati to Their Lordships Sri Sri Radha Partha-sarati, he was taken on a guided tour of the museum by Gopal Krishna Goswami. The Ambassador was very keen on knowing the full story of Srila Prabhupada and how he established ISKCON.

ISKCON Gears Up For Incorporation Day

After years of planning for its 50^th anniversary, and nearly six months of celebrations this year so far, ISKCON is now gearing up for its Golden Jubilee Incorporation Day on July 13^th, 1966. And temples, centers, and individual devotees all over the world are getting ready to do something big for founder Srila Prabhupada, whom many feel they owe their lives to.

ISKCON Delhi Was Target of Failed 2015 Terrorist Plot

In the winter of 2015, when Indian agencies were busy tracking down alQaida modules, two Jaish-eMuhammed terrorists had quietly sneaked into the capital. Intelligence sources said the duo rented a room in Lajpat Nagar, assembled six improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and recced at least four places for a strike, including the Taj Mahal and two city spots -Iskcon temple and the Select Citywalk mall in Saket.

Delhi Stadium Event to Honor Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

“Although the Bhakti movement has spread far and wide, not many people know its founder Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu – even in India,” says ISKCON’s communications deputy director for India, Yudhistira Govinda Das. With the Festival of Inspiration in New Delhi this May 28^th, he hopes to begin changing that. Supported by the Government of India’s Ministry of Culture, the event will take place at the Talkatora Indoor Stadium near Parliament. It’s expected to draw a full house.

Gopal Krishna Goswami Meets With Indian PM Modi

On Friday March 18^th, GBC and ISKCON New Delhi leader Gopal Krishna Goswami had the opportunity to meet with Indian Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi at his residence in the capital city, to discuss ISKCON’s work. Mr. Modi is known for promoting the Bhagavad-gita, and so Gopal Krishna Maharaja gifted him a special deluxe edition of Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad-gita As It Is.

Rescuing the Stolen River Premiers at Asia’s Largest Green Film Festival

The festival, which ran from October 9^th to 13^th at Delhi’s NDMC Convention Centre, is ranked in the top two environmental film festivals in the world. It deals with a vast range of issues including climate change, natural heritage conservation, biodiversity, and renewable energy. This year, the festival received a total of 178 entries from India and around the world.

Yamuna Will Be Clean in Three Years: Delhi Water Minister Kapil Mishra

"The oxygen level in the river has also gone way below what is required. We'll make the river so clean that people will be able to bathe in it," Mishra said.

450 Delhi Youth Taste Bhakti Yoga Bliss on 'International Yoga Day'

The worldwide increase of popularity of yoga inspired the United Nations to recognize 21st June as ‘International Yoga Day’. On this occasion, ISKCON’s Youth Forum (IYF) shared the bliss of bhakti yoga with Delhi youngsters through its bi-monthly youth festival called ‘Umanga’.

ISKCON Temples To Be On India’s Tourist Maps

On Wednesday, 1^st April 2015, Minister of State of Culture, Tourism & Civil Aviation Dr. Mahesh Sharma (who is also a MP from Gautam Budh Nagar, Nodia, UP, from BJP) visited the Noida ISKCON temple. The objective of the meeting was to seek the minister’s help in linking ISKCON’s spiritual tourism to India’s tourism map and recognising ISKCON’s participation in promoting Indian Vedic culture around the world.

Indian Government Agrees to Restore Yamuna River’s “Ecological Flow”

The Indian government has finally agreed to restore the Yamuna’s ecological flow through several steps demanded by protestors, beginning with bringing the sacred river under the Environment Protection Act within two to three months. The move is a huge victory for the Free Yamuna Campaign of Braj (the land of Lord Krishna’s pastimes), which has been fighting for years now to restore the beleaguered river.

Forms of Devotion Art Exhibit Launches in New Delhi

Over 500 people attended the inauguration of the exhibit “Forms of Devotion: The Spiritual in Indian Art” at New Delhi’s prestigious Lalit Kala Akademi on March 21^st. The exhibit features about 400 works by nearly 200 artists, selected from the Museum of Sacred Art’s (MOSA’s) permanent collection of over 1,600.

Day 5 of the ISKCON GBC Meetings Focuses on ISKCON's 50th Anniversary

The fifth day of the Annual General Meeting of ISKCON’s Governing Body Commission focused on celebrating the 50^th anniversary of ISKCON.

Yamuna Protest Will Not Budge or Negotiate This Time

100,000 people are expected to participate in a third march protesting the condition of the sacred river Yamuna this spring – and this time, organizers say, they will not budge or negotiate with the government. Two previous marches in 2011 and 2013 yielded some results -- for instance, the government agreed to construct a sewage canal to stop Delhi drains discharging pollutants and sewer waste into the river.

ISKCON Delhi’s Vedic Museum To Add Two New Exhibits

The Vedic Museum – popularly known as the “Vedic Expo” – at ISKCON New Delhi’s massive Glory of India Vedic Cultural Center is in the process of adding two new exhibits. These will be incorporated into its section on the Chaitanya Charitamrita, the sixteenth century biography of Gaudiya Vaishnava Saint Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.

Grammy Nominee Krishna Das Visits ISKCON Delhi

Krishna Das or KD as his famously called in the Kirtan and Yoga circles and a Grammy-award nominated singer, visited ISKCON's Glory of India project in New Delhi last week while on a visit to the country's capital. The singer recalled his association with Srila Prabhupada when he would go to join the kirtans at Tompkins Square Park in New York in the late 60's.

You Can Drink Yamuna Water and Also Swim in the River by 2017: JICA Representative

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), expressed hope that the Yamuna would be clean by year 2017.

Speaker of Lok Sabha Presented With Bhagavad-Gita

On July 22^nd, 2014, ISKCON Zonal Secretary for Mumbai Juhu, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan Devakinandan Das and ISKCON Indian Communications Director Vrajendranandan Das met the honorable Speaker of Lok Sabha, the Parliament of India Srimati Sumitra Mahajan.

President of India Presented With Bhagavad Gita As It Is Deluxe Edition

ISKCON Governing Body Commissioner and Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (BBT) trustee Gopal Krishna Goswami met the honorable President of India, Mr. Pranab Mukherjee on 12^th June, 2014 at the President’s official residence in New Delhi and presented him the BBT’s deluxe edition of the Bhagavad Gita As It Is along with the maha-prasad of Their Lordships Sri Sri Radha Parthasarathi.

Devotees Discover Prabhupada’s Belongings at Delhi Residence

Devotees overseeing the restoration of the Delhi temple where Srila Prabhupada stayed in the early 1960s before leaving for the US have discovered a treasure of his personal belongings. Breaking open the locks on a door that had not been opened for 25 years, they were amazed to find the items still in his room at the Chippiwada Sri Sri Radha-Vallabha Mandir in Delhi’s busiest market, Chandni Chowk, after so long.

New Noida Temple Wows at Three-Day Grand Opening

Thousands poured into ISKCON’s architecturally stunning new Radha Govind Dev Mandir and Bhaktivedanta Academy in Noida, Uttar Pradesh for its grand opening from February 11th to 13th. Two thousand national and international ISKCON devotees stayed overnight for the festival, with that number rising to 5,000 during the day on the 11th and 12th.

ISKCON Attends Ahimsa Campaign Launch in Delhi

Five ISKCON devotees were invited to attend the All India Ahimsa Paramo Dharma Awareness Campaign launch in Delhi on September 21st. The launch was held at Rashtrapati Bhavan, the official home of the President of India Shri Pranab Mukherji.

ISKCON Delhi to Open Eighth and Ninth Temples

Two brand new ISKCON temples are set to open in Delhi soon. The first will open in the Dwarka Suburb of Delhi on August 21^st this year. In addition, another major temple is under construction in the Noida area, and is scheduled to open on February 12^th 2014. The most surprising and wonderful thing about these new developments are that they will be no less than the eight and ninth ISKCON temples in Delhi!

Massive March for Yamuna River Nears Delhi

Tens of thousands of villagers are marching toward Delhi to pressure the central government to save the Yamuna River, in one of the biggest protests against river pollution in India.

ISKCON Gurgaon's Ratha Yatra to Be Telecast Live Worldwide

"It will cover nearly eight kilometers followed by cultural functions", said a member of the organising committee. "For the first time large and big LED screens would be installed in various parts of the city."

"Convergence of Science and Spirituality" Conference in Delhi

The two-day conference was hosted at the premises of the Sri Venkateswara College in South Campus of Delhi University on 5th and 6th of November, 2011. The initiative for the conference was taken by the Institute for Science and Spirituality (ISS), the scientific study wing of ISKCON Delhi.

Chippiwada Temple Entrusted to ISKCON

Trustees of the Sri Radha Krishna Mandir in Chippiwada (New Delhi) have handed over management of the historic temple to ISKCON. In the 70s, Srila Prabhupada had tried to buy the temple, but the trustees at the time were not interested.

In India, Hitching Hopes on a Subway

Instead of dry procedural manuals, senior managers of the Delhi Metro are given a copy of the Bhagavad-Gita, one of Hinduism’s most important texts.

Spiritual Meeting in India's Capital

The 29th National Sanatan Dharma Mahasamelan was held on 17th of April at the FICCI Auditorium (New Delhi).

ISKCON Delhi Celebrates Its First Ever ‘Boat Festival’

ISKCON Delhi celebrated its first ever Boat Festival of Sri Radha Parathsarathi at its ‘Glory of India’ premises on Saturday April 3.

Gaura Purnima Festivities Ring in Vaishnava New Year

ISKCON temples around the world were alive with joyous celebration this February 28th in honor of Gaura Purnima, the appearance day of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.

Tihar Jail Inmates Chant, Dance, Feast and Read

New Delhi ISKCON devotees kicked off a program at Tihar Jail on December 2nd with a one-hour kirtan chant, raising inmates to their feet to dance and sing along.

Lord Jagannatha Strolls Through Delhi Streets

Hundreds of devotees belonging to the International Society of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) took out a procession of Lord Jagannath in New Delhi on Monday. The procession or yatra was similar to the famous traditional Ratha Yatra (chariot festival) of Lord Jagannath, held in Puri District of Orissa every year.

Delhi Chief Minister Attends ISKCON Janmastami Festival

Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit took an hour out to visit the ISKCON Delhi temple this Janmastami. She was received by Gopal Krishna Goswami, who brought her to see the deities of Sri Sri Radha Parthasarathi and Gaura Nitai. Over fifteen media outlets telecasted the visit live.

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