By Prasanna Shyam Dasa
On February 10th 2016, we started the all-Tamil Nadu padayatra at Sri Rangam in the presence of Srila Prabhupada disciple Akhiladhar prabhu and the All India padayatra devotees. Harish Bhatter, Srila Gopala Bhatta Goswami 15th generation devotee, started the procession. We did house programs, public programs and nagar sankirtana around Trichy. Finaly we reach Kumbakonam at the time of the Kumba-mela festival. Many congressional devotees participated in the programs. There were around 30 lakhs (3 million)npeople during the 5 days of the Kumbha-mela festival. The Tamil Nadu padayatris and the ISKCON Kumbhakonam devotees distributed a total of more than 1,000 Bhagavad- gitas and 10,000 Back to Godhead magazines.