{"id":193573,"date":"2022-06-21T00:48:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T19:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=193573"},"modified":"2022-06-21T00:48:23","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T19:18:23","slug":"rgu-mourns-prof-duttas-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/06\/21\/rgu-mourns-prof-duttas-passing\/","title":{"rendered":"RGU mourns prof Dutta&#8217;s passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>RONO HILLS, 20 Jun:<\/strong> Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU) convened a condolence meeting here to pay respects to the departed soul of former social sciences professor Srishtidhar Dutta, who passed away on the morning of 20 June at a private hospital in Guwahati, Assam.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Late Dutta was born on 1 February, 1945, in Hatkhula village in Assam. He had joined JN College in Pasighat as a reader in September 1988, in the history department of the then Arunachal University (now RGU), and was appointed as a professor in August 1993 in the varsity&#8217;s history department.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He had retired from service on 31 January, 2005.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The RGU recalled him as a &#8220;renowned educationist, noteworthy historian, eminent writer and social activist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;His demise is a great loss to the academic community,&#8221; the RGU said in a release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RONO HILLS, 20 Jun: Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU) convened a condolence meeting here to pay respects to the departed soul of former social sciences professor Srishtidhar Dutta, who passed away on the morning of 20 June at a private hospital in Guwahati, Assam. Late Dutta was born on 1 February, 1945, in Hatkhula village in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-193573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}