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Hare Krishna in a Chinese Classroom, by Oxford Don

By Venkatesan Vembu for Daily News & Analysis (Mumbai) on 22 Apr 2008

HONG KONG: By day, Kenneth Valpey dons his academic robes to elevate his students at the Chinese University of Hong Kong to a higher orbit of understanding about Indian religions and cultures.

But come evening, he assumes another avatar. He slips into something a little more comfortable — like a pristine white dhoti-kurta and a wrap-around angavastram — and sermonizes on the Bhagavad Gita to the devotees of Krishna in Hong Kong.

More to Krishnas than Vegetarian Lunch

By Katie Gallagher for The Alligator (University of Florida) on 21 Apr 2008

Hundreds of students find their way to the Plaza of the Americas every weekday to eat a $4 vegetarian meal served by the Hare Krishnas.

Some are interested enough to pick up a book off the self-service rack. A few attend classes on yoga or meditation at the Hare Krishna House on Northwest 14th Street.

Plants Deserve Respect, Swiss Committee Says

Agence France-Presse on 14 Apr 2008

GENEVA (AFP) - Plants deserve respect, a group of Swiss experts said Monday, arguing that killing them arbitrarily was morally wrong -- except when it comes to saving humans or maybe picking petals off a daisy.