Kolkata, Dec 29 (IANS) Monks of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon) chanted and danced outside the Russian consulate here Thursday to celebrate the dismissal of a plea seeking ban on the Bhagavad Gita in Russia.
Chanting ‘Hare Krishna Hare Rama’, nearly 200 monks assembled outside the Russian consulate and presented a copy of the Bhagavad Gita to a senior official of the consulate.
‘We are very happy about the decision. So it was our gesture to thank them,’ Iskcon official Radha Romon Das said.
A Siberian court Wednesday axed a plea seeking to ban the Bhagavad Gita in Russia and to brand the holy text ‘extremist’ literature.
