| Researchers from Northwestern University recently published a series of data in the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience, revealing that music plays an important role in nervous system development.
| By Shuvojit Roy for ISKCON News on 24 Jul 2010 | The city of Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh witnessed an unprecedented turnout of devotees pouring in from all corners of the city and the country. Three chariots pulling Their Lordships by approximately a whopping fifty thousand devotees formed a huge procession that snaked its way through the main streets of Dhaka City.
| | I know the world isn't going vegetarian overnight. Our numbers are growing, certainly, but the global demand for meat is greater than it's ever been. Amid all this, I was happy to see a substantial group of small farmers take a stand for better farming, including more humane methods of animal husbandry than the factory-farming norm.
| By Krishna-lila Dasi for ISKCON News on 24 Jul 2010 | In the European Year against poverty and social exclusion 2010 the European institutions engage in a dialogue with religious leaders, including Sivarama Swami ISKCON representative.
| By Madhava Smullen for ISKCON News on 24 Jul 2010 | Summer 1973, 8am, in Washington, DC. A young fellow Eddie—better known all over the world as Aindra Dasa—joins the harinam party and from that day on, he never stopped chanting Hare Krishna.
| By Madhava Smullen for ISKCON News on 24 Jul 2010 | Arya Dasi, a student at the University of Leeds, England, is doing her PhD thesis on a rather unique topic: ISKCON's zonal acharya system of the 1980s.
| By Madhava Smullen for ISKCON News on 23 Jul 2010 | Festival of India offers a new gift to donors which adds just that much more of a personal touch: a beautiful and detailed bust of ISKCON's founder.
| By Krishnanandini Dasi for ISKCON News on 23 Jul 2010 | After the successful "Spiritual Warrior" trip to Guyana (ISKCON News, July 15) Vilasa-Manjari Dasi and Paramananda Das are organizing another preaching mission to Guyana, South America in September, 2010. This project is entitled "Food For Life: the Spiritual Warriors Feed the Children Marathon".
| | An Indian court has ruled that Hindu gods cannot deal in stocks and shares, after an application for trading accounts to be set up in their names.
| | Solar Impulse, piloted by André Borschberg, flew for 26 hours and reached a height of 28,543 feet, setting a record for the longest and highest flight ever made by a solar plane.
| By Padma-Nayana Das for ISKCON News on 22 Jul 2010 | These yoga retreats will allow the participants to get a deeper understanding of the real meaning of "yoga", to realize and appreciate what is inside the world of yoga (and what are the yoga "ladders"), including bhakti-yoga, asanas, pranayama, meditation, yoga philosophy, yogic lifestyle, yogic diet, vedic culture, to obtain full satisfaction through yoga.
| | The Lotus Trust, the welfare arm of Bhaktivedanta Manor, UK raised thousands for local charities, including the Great Ormond Street Hospital during a Charity Walk on Sunday 18th July. This year's Walk was themed 'walking with the cows' as there were over fifty walkers dressed as cows.
| | Aindra had complete conviction. Conviction that Vrindavan was the highest spiritual abode. Conviction that kirtan was no ordinary music - it was the divine name, descended from above, non-different from Radha and Krishna. He had no interest to be anywhere else or do anything else. He was convinced that by sitting in that spot he could change the world through his song.
| By Sesa Das for ISKCON News on 22 Jul 2010 | Srila Prabhupada instructed the devotees that they were not spiritually ready to be candidates for political office, and that it would be better to not get diverted from the core activities of the Krishna Consciousness Movement. Yet, questions remained; should Hare Krishna devotees vote in political elections, what role do the devotees play in participatory forms of government?
| By Badrinarayan Das for ISKCON News on 22 Jul 2010 | The North American GBC is looking for future leaders, intelligent and devotionally-inclined young men and women who would like serve Lord Chaitanya's sankirtan movement by making a career of full time service in ISKCON USA America. To help fulfill this aim, the North American GBC is offering a two-year scholarship to Bhaktivedanta College in Radhadesa, Belgium.
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