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'''Krishna Dharma''' born as '''Kenneth Anderson''' (born 1955 in London) is a British [[Hindu]] scholar and author.<ref name="Dwyer269">{{Harvnb|Dwyer|Cole|2007|p=269}}</ref><ref name="nair1999">{{Harvnb|Nair|1999|pp=}}</ref>

== About ==
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).<ref name="Dwyer269" /><ref name="meek1999">{{Harvnb|Meek|1999|pp=}}</ref> He is also a contributor to the press and a regular radio broadcaster.<ref name="Dwyer269" />

Krishna Dharma was born as Kenneth Anderson in 1955 in London.<ref name="bbtkd">[http://bbt.se/authors_others_krishnadharma.html Krishna Dharma dasa] [[Bhaktivedanta Book Trust]]</ref> In his youth he served as a merchant navy officer.<ref name = meek1999 /> In 1979 he joined [[ISKCON]] and started following the chaitanya vaisnavism or sanatan dharma .<ref name="bbtkd"/> Since the beginning of the 1980s, he has offered seminars and lectures on the [[Vedas]] and associated disciplines.<ref name="Dwyer269"/> In 1986 he established the first [[ISKCON]] temple in [[Manchester]], England, and served there as a temple president until 2001.<ref name="Dwyer269"/> 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.<ref name="icj">[http://www.iskcon.com/icj/contributors.html#Dharma Krishna Dharma dasa] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516204151/http://www.iskcon.com/icj/4_2/4_2charisma.html#Dharma |date=16 May 2008 }} [[ISKCON Communications Journal]]</ref> He is married to Cintamani Devi Dasi and has three children, Madhava, Radhika, and Janaki.<ref name="icj"/> He lives with his family in [[Hertfordshire]].<ref name="Dwyer269"/>

In 1999 Krishna Dharma published the first edition of his adaptation of the [[Mahabharata]]. British author and journalist [[James Meek (author)|James Meek]] wrote in his review in ''[[The Guardian]]'':<ref name="meek1999"/>
{{blockquote|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]].}}

== Works ==
{{Vaishnavism}}Krishna Dharma's works are published by the ''Torchlight Publications'' company and by the [[Bhaktivedanta Book Trust]].
* {{Cite book
| last=Krishna Dharma
| year= 1999
| title=Mahabharata: The Greatest Spiritual Epic of All Time
| publisher=Torchlight Publishing
| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u0q-KwAACAAJ
| isbn= 1-887089-17-9
| ref=none
}}
* {{Cite book
| last=Krishna Dharma
| year= 2001
| title=Mahabharata: The Condensed Version of the World's Greatest Epic
| publisher=Torchlight Publishing
| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YynDOwAACAAJ
| isbn= 1-887089-25-X
| ref=none
}}
* {{Cite book
| last=Krishna Dharma
| year= 2004
| title=Ramayana: India's Immortal Tale of Adventure, Love, and Wisdom
| publisher=Torchlight Publishing
| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_KyrAQAACAAJ
| isbn= 1-887089-06-3
| ref=none
}}
* {{Cite book
| last=Krishna Dharma
| year= 2004
| title=Panchatantra: "five Wise Lessons" : a Vivid Retelling of India's Most Famous Collection of Fables
| edition= illustrated | publisher=Torchlight Publishing
| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jOCOPQAACAAJ
| isbn= 1-887089-45-4
| ref=none
}}
* {{Cite book
| last=Krishna Dharma
| year= 2004
| title=Beauty, Power and Grace: The Many Faces Of The Goddess
| edition= illustrated | publisher=Mandala Publishing
| isbn= 1-886069-89-1
| ref=none
}}
* {{Cite book
| last=Krishna Dharma | last2=Aery | first2=Vipin
| last3=Rasamandala Das
| year=2008
| chapter=Hinduism:the tradition speaks for itself
| editor-last= Thakrar | editor-first=Diviash
| editor2-last=Rasamandala Das
| editor3-last= Sheikh | editor3-first=Aziz
| title=Caring for Hindu Patients
| edition=illustrated, revised | publisher=[[Radcliffe Publishing]]
| pages=5–23
| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sKeRPxhs7ugC&pg=PA5
| ref=none
}}
* {{Cite book
| last=Krishna Dharma
| year=2007
| chapter=Spiritual solutions to material problems: ISKCON and the Modern World
| editor-last= Dwyer | editor-first= Graham
| editor2-last=Cole | editor2-first=Richard J.
| title=The Hare Krishna movement: forty years of chant and change
| edition=illustrated | publisher=[[I.B. Tauris]]
| pages=121–133
| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l4cE-nzXLx8C&pg=PA121
| ref=none
}}
*{{Cite book
| last=Krishna Dharma
| title=Let's all just karma down
| newspaper=[[The Guardian]] | date=6 February 1999
| url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/1999/feb/06/facetofaith.religion
| ref=none
}}
*{{Cite book
| last=Krishna Dharma
| title=The new war on ignorance
| newspaper=[[The Guardian]] | date=29 September 2001
| url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/sep/29/afghanistan.terrorism6
| ref=none
}}

== References ==
;Citations
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;Bibliography
* {{Citation
| last= Dwyer | first=Graham | last2=Cole | first2=Richard J.
| year= 2007
| title=The Hare Krishna Movement: Forty Years of Chant and Change
| publisher=[[I.B.Tauris]]
| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=l4cE-nzXLx8C
| isbn= 1-84511-407-8
}}
* {{Cite book
| last= Bryant | first= Edwin | last2= Ekstrand | first2= Maria
| author-link1=Edwin Bryant (author)
| year= 2004
| title=The Hare Krishna Movement: The Postcharismatic Fate of a Religious Transplant
| publisher=Columbia University Press
| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mBMxPdgrBhoC
| isbn= 0-231-12256-X
}}
* {{Cite book
| last= Rosen | first=Steven J. | author-link=Satyaraja Dasa
| year= 1996
| title=Vaiṣṇavī: women and the worship of Krishna
| publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publishers
| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KWQqAAAAYAAJ
| isbn= 81-208-1438-X
}}
* {{Citation
| last=Meek | first= James
| author-link=James Meek (author)
| title=Novel slant on spreading the word
| newspaper=[[The Guardian]] | date=12 August 1999
| url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/aug/12/religion.uk
}}
* {{Cite book
| last= Manson | first=Louise
| title=Health: Things to make you go 'Om'
| newspaper=[[The Independent]] | date=19 August 1999
| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/health-things-to-make-you-go-om-1113585.html
}}
*{{Citation
| last=Nair
| first=Mahesh
| title=Twice Born: Retelling the Mahabharata, potboiler style
| newspaper=[[India Today]]
| date=11 October 1999
| url=http://www.indiatoday.com/itoday/19991011/books2.html
| archive-url=https://archive.today/20130126050657/http://www.indiatoday.com/itoday/19991011/books2.html
| url-status=dead
| archive-date=26 January 2013
}}
* {{Cite book
| last=Kirn | first=Maggie
| title=Madonna's Holy Grail
| newspaper=[[W (magazine)|W]] | date=1 April 2000
| url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-27751694_ITM
}}
* {{Cite book
| last= Menon | first=Ramesh
| year= 2004
| title=The Ramayana: A Modern Retelling of the Great Indian Epic
| publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux
| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OcZpUf8tcwEC
| isbn= 0-86547-695-0
}}

== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060307231619/http://www.krishnadharma.com/intro.html Personal site of Krishna Dharma]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090302111854/http://iskcon.org.uk/devotees/krishnadharma.html UK ISKCON Devotees: Krishna Dharma Dasa]
* [http://bbt.se/authors_others_krishnadharma.html Krishna Dharma dasa]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080516204151/http://www.iskcon.com/icj/4_2/4_2charisma.html#Dharma Krishna Dharma dasa]
* [http://www.dandavats.com/?cat=46 Articles on Dandavats.com]

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