It's Scribe Day on Kauai

Scribe Day? Yes, this is the day each quarter when our cenobitic editors have to submit their articles for the magazine. Then we have four working days to make our final edits and color corrections and such before Scroll Day. Scroll Day is when the PDFs go off to our printer in Minnesota. Get it? Scribe is the writer and scroll is the printer. Gurudeva never like the word deadline, so we have positive names that won't keep a monk awake at night if he is behind schedule.

After it's all off to the printer, we go to work and repurpose the files for our website, and then send the PDFs to India to be ePubed, then send another set to Delhi for the India Edition, then send Pub Desk to seven translators for porting to other languages, then.... you get the idea.

Home page of our website for last issue.

Monks submit print out their pages and send around to a series of proofers, who mark-up the pages in red. These go back to the writer who inputs the corrections. Another set of corrections happens digitally, for instance Chamundi\

s work goes to Dropbox, gets marked up on the Mac and Dropboxed (soon to be a word) back to the editor in charge of that article. '

Senthilnathaswami and Jayanatha have placed a map we commissioned into the cover template and are reviewing it.

Lynda McClanahan of Ohio painted this wonderful map. It shows Hinduism in Europe, and tells the tale of the swamis\

month-long tour through Europe, the temples, ashrams and monasteries they visited. It\'s our feature story this issue. A story that has, to our knowledge, never been told. '

This is the gatefold, a photo our swamis took in Berlin at a new Muruga temple that was consecrated in September. Read all about it in the next magazine.

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