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Jagannatha Appears in Chicago Parade

By Kulasekhara Dasa on 15 Sep 2007

CHICAGO, Illinois – Devotees from around the United States gathered to perform the public singing of the holy names and pull Lord Jagannath’s chariot as part of a parade in Chicago on August 11. More than 1.5 million spectators lined the streets as the parade wound its way through the south of the city.

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Devotee Remembers KGB Persecution

By Sudeshna Banerjee for The Telegraph (Kolkata, India) on 15 Sep 2007

For 730 days, Gagik Buniatyan ate bread. So what? Well, for 730 days Buniatyan ate only bread, very coarse and just three slices. That was all that the 23-year-old was allowed while serving time in a Siberian labour camp, where temperatures dipped to negative 50 degrees Celsius.

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Government Bows Before God

The Telegraph (Kolkata, India) on 13 Sep 2007

New Delhi, Sept. 13: The government will rewrite its affidavit on Lord Ram in a bid to avert a political Delhidahan, the fate that befell Lanka for crossing his path. Prodded by Sonia Gandhi, the Centre and the Congress today declared that Ram was a historical figure and not a mythological “character” as the affidavit recently suggested in the Supreme Court.

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