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His Holiness Subhag Swami His Holiness Subhag Swami (Milan Kumar Talukdar) was born on 21st December, 1940 in the aristocratic Talukdar family of Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He completed his intermediate studies from the Scottish Churches’ College, Kolkata and obtained his Bachelors’ Degree in Chemistry with highest degrees from Maharaja Munundra Chandra College. In November of 1965, he went to London to pursue higher studies in Engineering. During the course of his studies in London, in 1970, he met His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, founder Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in London itself. From then on Bhaktivedanta Swami, better known as Srila Prabhupada, personally trained him for a period of seven years in the scientific understanding of Vedic Culture which aims at enlightening the general mass, especially the student community and the scholarly minded intellectuals about ‘the Ultimate Reality’ and ‘the meaning and purpose of the human form of life. He was formally initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1971.