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Krishna Dharma born as Kenneth Anderson (born 1955 in London) is a British Hindu scholar and author. [1] [2]
Krishna Dharma is "the author of the English editions of Indian epics": the Ramayana: India's Immortal Tale of Adventure, Love, and Wisdom (1998) and the Mahabharata: The Greatest Spiritual Epic of All Time (1999). [1] [3] He is also a contributor to the press and a regular radio broadcaster. [1]
Krishna Dharma was born as Kenneth Anderson in 1955 in London. [4] In his youth he served as a merchant navy officer. [3] In 1979 he joined ISKCON and started following the chaitanya vaisnavism or sanatan dharma . [4] Since the beginning of the 1980s, he has offered seminars and lectures on the Vedas and associated disciplines. [1] In 1986 he established the first ISKCON temple in Manchester, England, and served there as a temple president until 2001. [1] In 1989 he started in Manchester a "Hare Krishna Food for Life" programme, which has become the largest free food distribution effort in the city. [5] He is married to Cintamani Devi Dasi and has three children, Madhava, Radhika, and Janaki. [5] He lives with his family in Hertfordshire. [1]
In 1999 Krishna Dharma published the first edition of his adaptation of the Mahabharata. British author and journalist James Meek wrote in his review in The Guardian : [3]
With its intense love scenes, jewelled palaces, vast battles, superheroes, magical weapons and warring families, the novelised version resembles a 20th century saga-cum-soap opera, a marriage of Barbara Taylor Bradford and Arthur Hailey.
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Krishna Dharma's works are published by the Torchlight Publications company and by the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust.
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