Swami in a Strange Land
HOW KRISHNA CAME TO THE WEST
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Joshua M Greene
In 1965, a 70-year-old man set sail from India to the United States. He arrived in New York at the peak of the hippie counterculture movement and went on to create the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, becoming known as Swami Prabhupada. This biography shows how and why millions around the globe, including cultural icons such as the musician George Harrison and the poet Allen Ginsberg, incorporated Prabhupada’s teachings into their lives.
simon and schuster, 340 pages, RS. 999
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