At the beginning of the 1983 Sydney Rathayatra festival an Indian lady fell in front of Lord Jagannatha's cart and the wheel ran over her head and killed her. This is one of the many television news reports of the sad incident.
The ISCKON Foundation was launched by the GBC in 1992 when they saw the Western devotees were loosing interest. So it was an attempt by the GBC to convert Srila Prabhupada's ISKCON, which is supposed to be spreading Krishna consciousness al
During the 1980s in America vegetarianism became very popular. In most families at least someone was becoming a vegetarian. In their quest for physical and psychological wellbeing hundreds of millions of Americans changed their diets and in