{"id":6515,"date":"2008-01-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/01\/05\/pundit-anant-anand-sharma-of-fiji-passes-away\/"},"modified":"2008-01-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-05T12:00:00","slug":"pundit-anant-anand-sharma-of-fiji-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/01\/05\/pundit-anant-anand-sharma-of-fiji-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Pundit Anant Anand Sharma of Fiji Passes Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"mailto:shambu@connect.com.fj\">shambu@connect.com.fj<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">LAUTOKA CITY, FIJI, January 5, 2008: Renowned Hindu priest Pundit Anant Anand Sharma left this world, after a long illness, at age 68.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Sharma was the son of a well known Hindu leader, Pundit Parshu Ram Sharma who hailed from the town of Sigatoka in the province of Nadroga in Fiji.He started his ministry at an early age of fifteen. The late priest was also a serving national president of the Shree Sanatan Dharm Brahman Purohit Sabha of Fiji, a body in charge of all Hindu priests in the country and was elected to the top position for a sixteenth consecutive year in October last year. He was also honored as the Brahman Shiromani, a prestigious Hindu award for his dedication towards the Hindu religion and the society at large in July last year.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from being a priest, Late Mr. Sharma was also an active social worker and a welfare officer dedicating most of his time to serve the underprivileged people of our society.<\/p>\n<p>The national secretary of the Brahman Sabha, Pundit Umeshwar Ram Sharma was saddened with the demise of their leader. &#8220;We have lost a great leader who has been preaching our beloved religion for the past 53 years,&#8221; Pundit Umeshwar declared. He said Late Pundit Sharma was a great mentor to all Hindus in Fiji. &#8220;We pray for his soul to rest in peace and unite with the Almighty,&#8221; Pundit Umeshwar said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>shambu@connect.com.fj LAUTOKA CITY, FIJI, January 5, 2008: Renowned Hindu priest Pundit Anant Anand Sharma left this world, after a long,&#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-6515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6515","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=6515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}