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About Krishna Dharma
- Krishna Dharma born as Kenneth Anderson (born 1955 in London) is a British Hindu scholar and author.Krishna Dharma is "the author of the world's most popular editions of India's great epics": the Ramayana: India's Immortal Tale of Adventure, Love, and Wisdom (1998) and the Mahabharata: The Greatest Spiritual Epic of All Time (1999).
- He is also a contributor to the press and a regular radio broadcaster. Krishna Dharma was born as Kenneth Anderson in 1955 in London.
- In his youth he served as a merchant navy officer.
- In 1979 he joined ISKCON and converted to the monotheistic Vaishnava tradition of Hinduism.
- Since the beginning of the 1980s, he has offered seminars and lectures on the Vedas and associated disciplines.
- In 1986 he established the first ISKCON temple in Manchester, England, and served there as a temple president until 2001.
- 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.
- He is married to Cintamani devi dasi and has three children, Madhava,Radhika and Janaki.
- He lives with his family in Hertfordshire.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: "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.
- Salman Rushdie was threatened with murder for it.
- William Tyndale was strangled and burned for it.
- Altering, challenging or even translating sacred texts can be dangerous.
- But a British Hindu priest expects only praise, high sales and converts from an epic effort of literary digestion launched next week: the 100,000-verse Mahabharata, turned by him into a 1,000-page blockbuster novel".
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