By Damodar das
Book Release: I’ll Build You a Temple: The Juhu Story"
In August 1965, a few weeks before Srila Prabhupada left for America, on his way to see Srimati Sumati Morarji, the shipping magnate who secured him passage to the US, he passed a neglected four-acre plot of land near her residence on Juhu Beach, outside Bombay, and thought it would be a nice location for a Radha-Krishna temple.
It took thirteen years—including six years of battling the crooked landlord, his agents, and corr