 In their book on the first four decades of the Hare Krishna movement, authors Graham Dwyer and Richard Cole describe the three couples who founded the UK mission as "pioneer devotees".By 1971, when he met Harrison in New York before the Concert for Bangladesh, Shyamsundar had become Prabhupada's assistant, accompanying the acharya as he continued to propagate Krishna Consciousness around the world.The London temple hosted a visit by Prabhupada in July 1973, when Shyamsundar arranged a procession through the city to celebrate the annual Hindu Ratha-Yatra festival.