Jaya Sri Krsna!

Esteemed Prof. Samaresh Bandyopadhyay, Anjana Suta Academy,
Here it is Thursday, night, 7.48PM and we are seated in the living room of Dr. Ravi Singh. It is very cool here, but in our cave and outside it is about 30* and 85% humidity. It makes it very hard for us to work, but we did get a small air-conditioner installed in one room of our mobile-home and it brings it down to a workeable level in that room.

Again, we tried to call last weekend but could not get through. We got your letter and will try again on Saturday with Dr. Ravi.

This week we were supposed to have a conference call with Rama-giri-dhari  Das about the NIOS work, and the ISKCON Ministry of Education, but he Skyped us apologizing that he was caught in travel, so we have not met so far.

Ramon Mujica, who was Director of the National Library in Peru for five years, and our staunch supporter and friend, has not yet been chosen by the new Minister of Cultural to retain the position, but he has been asked by the new President himself to take up the responsibility, directly under him, of Director for the Centennary Celebrations of Peru's Independence from the Spanish colonial powers. He has asked Abhirama Das that anyone of our community who would like to do anything in this regard then please present it to him. For your good self and Prof. Kalyankumar it seems like there would be excellent opportunity to make very practical comments about colonial independence in comparison of India and Peru and modern development of national identities and missions.

Solaris is going out and we are already getting new friends from it in Spain. I downloaded the English files today and I can start work on them and as discussed we were hoping that you can review the articles and then write the Foreword for this first number and the whole Journal.

Personally, between battles with lust, spiders, local projects etc, I have ordered Prof. Gerald Larson's translation of Isvara Krsna Das' Sankhya Karika, as recomended by Prof. Ravi Gupta and Miguel Polo, and hope to use it in developing our efforts in adjudicating  Sankhya with the world models of the West from such philosophers as Carl Jung, Marshal McLuhan and E. T. Hall. Is it the proper book?

Finally, our Calendar seems to be settling down and we would come to the all glorious land of Bharata on January 1st for an ISKCON-Christian dialog in Tirupati and Radhika's developing Bhagvatam syposium at Madras University about the 7th. Then we are at the disposal of your good selves until about 10th-17th February when the is a Guru, Sannyasi, GBC Sanga in Mayapura. After that we were thinking to head by the USA with a quick stop in Spain.

Well this letter sounds half-way sane and we hope to talk with you this Saturday.

HpSwami - ASA