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Vyenkata Bhatta Dasa | As we welcome in 2009, ISKCON News Weekly takes a look back at ten stories that helped to shape the last twelve months.
Madhava Smullen | Last September saw the first ever US Brahmacari Conference held at San Diego’s ISKCON temple. It was attended by 40-50 celibate students.
A group of kirtan singers will bless Barack Obama's inauguration with what they believe is the real solution to all problems - the holy names of Krishna.

Inside ISKCON

Rita Gupta | Many devotees have passed away since the Krishna consciousness movement began in the west in 1965. Sangita Devi Dasi, a hospice nurse and co-founder of Vaisnavas C.A.R.E. has cared for many dying devotees.
Devotees in Punjab, India kicked off the New Year in true spiritual style with the celebration of “Hare Krishna Nite” at the ISKCON temple in Ludhiana.

World News

In what could be seen as posing threat to the very existence of a 17th century temple, unauthorised quarrying works in about 50 acres of the land surrounding the temple are going on at a frenetic pace.

Opinion

Ravindra Svarupa Dasa | It is a fact that in this temporal world we hold not title to, we have no actual possession of, anything we enjoy. Our lease here on happiness is fragile and fleeting.
Indradyumna Swami | During the 1970s, I would get culture shock whenever I went to India. The crowded cities, heat, food, and sickness would painfully remind me that I was a stranger in a foreign land.