Though the press has confused the two lawsuits and got its facts jumbled up, the IRM media campaign strategy has had amazing success in that the main Indian newspapers have ended up printing verbatim quotes from letters that Srila Prabhupada wrote which make it clear that the children are not to be mistreated in any way. In this way though the press may not have managed to get all their facts correct, they have however managed to succeed in the key task of making it clear that Srila Prabhupada is not in any way linked to this abuse. Please find below a selection of the newspaper articles that have carried our story so far, followed by the press release that contributed to them.
Devotees are free to issue the press release to their own local media.
We have been informed that the media in other countries has also picked up our story, but we do not as yet have the relevant news copy. It also accuses that these men usurped power after Prabhupada's death in 1977. Among the 90 gurus named are several men based in Mayapur and Vrindavan, like Guru Gopalkrishna and Guru Radhanath. Any abuse that has occurred are in violation of his preachings. The suit quotes extensively from official letters written by Srila Prabhupada regarding the running of boarding schools.