{"id":10109,"date":"2011-05-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/05\/05\/bangladesh-ramkrishna-mission-head-passes-away\/"},"modified":"2011-05-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T12:00:00","slug":"bangladesh-ramkrishna-mission-head-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2011\/05\/05\/bangladesh-ramkrishna-mission-head-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh Ramkrishna Mission Head Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deccanherald.com\/content\/154614\/bangladesh-ramkrishna-mission-head-passes.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DHAKA, BANGLADESH, April 18, 2011 (The Deccan Herald): Leading spiritual personality and principal of Ramkrishna Mission movement in Bangladesh, Swami Aksharananda, died here today after prolonged illness at the age of 82.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Principal of Dhaka Ramkrishna Math (monastery) and Ramkrishna Mission breathed his last today at (Dhaka&#8217;s) Apollo Hospital,&#8221; the Mission said in an announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Born at Khurda village of southwestern Satkhira in 1929, Aksharananda joined Ramkrishna Mission in Narendrapur of Kolkata in 1950 and subsequently turned to asceticism in 1959. He returned to Bangladesh in 1972 to join a succor campaign in the war-ravaged Bangladesh to rehabilitate the distressed people and subsequently became the Principal of Dhaka Ramkrishna Mission, serving in this position for 37 years.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of his admirers and followers thronged the mission to pay their last respects to him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source DHAKA, BANGLADESH, April 18, 2011 (The Deccan Herald): Leading spiritual personality and principal of Ramkrishna Mission movement in Bangladesh,,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}