Dear Romapada Swami, Obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Thank you for writing and having the attached message forwarded. There are some points in your email which I would like to address. Firstly, your claim that the GBC doesn't have control over the temple board because it appoints only two members is misleading.

Since Janmastami and Mahavidya recently wrote about New Vrindaban's Giant Prabhupada Statue (see "Point of Order" and "The Big Bang") I thought I might add my own two cents to the discussion.

On behalf of the Temple Council, we would like to invite the devotees for the 30th Anniversary of the installation of Sri Sri Radha-Manohara on May 4, 5 and 6, 2007. We are also inviting devotees who have served at the temple since 1968.

For the first time in the history, a westerner receives an award at Sanskrit Faculty, Benares Hindu University. Bhakta Demian was a Christian monk when he joined ISKCON in Brazil and after studying philosophy, classical literature and linguistics at university, he set for India to study Sanskrit.

It is with great sadness that we have to announce the departure of His Grace Suhotra Prabhu from this world. Since joining the gurukula full time in 2004 he worked continuously on the study guide of the Srimad Bhagavatam, almost to the exclusion of anything else.

On Friday night at 9:36PM, my twin brother, our beloved Godbrother and most cherished friend, Mukta Kesa dasa prabhu (pictured with son, Chediraja in 1986) , left this world.

An American monk of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness was found dead in his room at the organisation's Mayapur headquarters, near here. The body of Roger Terrance, who was known as 'Suharto Maharaj' [Suhotra Maharaj] and died on Monday, was sent for post-mortem on Tuesday, ISKCON PRO Paresh Das said.