Maan lila at Maan Garh
Barsana, 2014.09.06 (Gudda Baba, Save Braja Forum): Tonight Maan Lila took place in the temple courtyard with 400 Brajabāsīs present. Śrī Ramesh Bābājī Mahārāj offered respects with a gift and received...
View ArticleSankari Khor lila
Barsana, 2014.09.08 (Gudda Baba): Today the wave of Maan Mandir event celebrations took place at Sankari Khor. This is the famous place where Kṛṣṇa’s dana-lila takes place: where he asks the gopis to...
View ArticleGrand Karttik Celebration to be organized by Hema Malini
Mathura, 2014.10.08: Cinestar and Member of Parliament Hema Malini will dance for the Karttik Mahotsava in Vrindavan. The three- day dance celebration will be organized in December to get international...
View ArticleDivinity experienced with melody at Meera Bai Temple
Vrindavan, December 9, 2014: On Tuesday evening, devotees gathered in the Meera Bai temple to immerse in the joy of devotion in a musical concert performed by Neeta Saraf and Priya Chopra. According to...
View ArticleBraj prepares for Mahotsava
Vrindavan, 2015.04.17 (TNN): Preparation for the two-day Mathura Mahotsava at the Akshaya Patra campus in Vrindavan, that was cancelled earlier, is in full swing. However, local artists are unhappy...
View ArticleAnnual Swami Haridas music fest on Radhashtami
Vrindavan, 2015.09.15 (PTI) A clutch of musicians and classical dancers are expected to take part in the annual Swami Haridas Sangeet Evam Nritya Mahotsav starting September 20 in Vrindavan here. “The...
View ArticleUP Gov. Ram Naik at Haridas Swami Sangeet festival
Mathura, Sep 22 (PTI) Music has the power to force God to appear before his devotees, UP Governor Ram Naik said today, adding that art has a universal language. “The Dhrupad style of Swami Haridas...
View ArticleMaking the Mathura Mahotsav a permanent institution: Hema
Lucknow, 2015.10.06 (Amar Ujala): Ordinary people may have looked on the two-day Mathura Mahotsav (net, FB) festival held on the Akshay Patra grounds in April as an extraordinary event, but for its...
View ArticleGlorious Humanist of Krishna’s Abode
Vrindavan, 2015.11.01 (Padmashri Geeta Chandran, Indian Express) It was about twenty years ago that I began visiting Vrindavan often to have a dialogue with Shrivatsa Goswami at the Caitanya Prema...
View ArticlePrakash Mahotsav: Light and sound at Kusum Sarovar on 17th
Govardhan, 2015.11.07 (VT): The 500th anniversary of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s arrival in Vrindavan will see numerous celebrations conducted by several groups of devotees following in his tradition. One...
View ArticleHema wants to create a dance academy in Mathura
Mathura, 2015.11.11 (PTI): Noted actress-politician Hema Malini has expressed her desire to open dance academies in Mumbai and Mathura. “I have an aim to open a dance academy here in Mumbai by the end...
View ArticleInternational conference on ‘Radical Islam’ in Mathura
Mathura, 2015.11.17 (TOI): Scholars and delegates from India, Canada, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and other countries will deliberate on world security and radical Islam at a three-day International...
View ArticleDevotees immersed in Prem rasa as celebrations begin
Vrindavan, November 17th 2015 (VT): Celebrations to commemorate Shriman Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s 5th centennial advent to Vrindavan began amid the chanting of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra on Tuesday....
View ArticlePresident in Vrindavan today
Vrindavan, 2015.11.18 (PTI): President Pranab Mukherjee will inaugurate the 500th year celebrations of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s advent in Vrindavan tomorrow. He will also visit the Shri Radha Raman...
View ArticleFourth major program celebrating Chaitanya’s coming to Braj
Vrindavan, 2015.11.17 (VT): We have already published information on three other programs that are being held to rejoice at Vrindavan’s rediscovery by Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in 1515. A fourth event is...
View ArticleChaitanya Mahotsava inaugurated by President Mukherjee
Vrindavan, 2015.11.18 (VT): The 500th anniversary celebration of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s advent in Brij-Vrindavan got off to an auspicious start yesterday with many prominent government figures coming...
View ArticlePresident Gives Message of Unity in Diversity in Vrindavan
Vrindavan, 2015.11.19 (PTI): Living with diversity and finding unity in diversity is practised in India over centuries and it is part of our civilisational values, President Pranab Mukherjee said in...
View ArticleKirtan and folk artists shake up Fogla Ashram
Vrindavan. 2015.11.19 (VT): At Fogla Ashram on Thursday night, Vrindavan residents and visitors to the Dham had the privilege of participating in a concert given by numerous groups from different parts...
View ArticleAnother Vrindavan Prakash Mahotsava: the 509th of Harivansh
Vrindavan, 2015.11.22 (VT): In the midst of this year’s celebrations of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s historic visit to Vrindavan in 1515, it is easy to forget that there are other claimants to the title of...
View ArticleSuman Bhattacharya: Vaishnava padavali at Prakash Mahotsav
Vrindavan, 2015.11.21 (VT): It has been hard to keep up with the Vrindavan Prakash Mahotsav. So many activities are going on, it is hard to decide where to go to relish the Harikatha and kirtan. Since...
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