{"id":83252,"date":"2019-10-30T00:47:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T19:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=83252"},"modified":"2019-10-30T00:47:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T19:17:11","slug":"former-rgu-vc-prof-ac-bhagawati-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/10\/30\/former-rgu-vc-prof-ac-bhagawati-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Former RGU VC Prof AC Bhagawati passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>RONO HILLS, Oct 29:<\/strong> Former vice-chancellor of the then Arunachal University (now Rajiv Gandhi University), Prof AC Bhagawati, passed away in a hospital in Guwahati (Assam) on 26 October.<br \/>\nHe was 82, and is survived by his wife, a daughter and a son.<br \/>\nA condolence meeting was held at RGU on 28 October in honour of the late VC.<br \/>\nBesides RGU VC Prof Saket Kushwaha, former VC Prof Tamo Mibang, Registrar Prof Tomo Riba, the deans, directors, heads of departments, officers, administrative employees and students attended the meeting.<br \/>\nThey recalled Prof Bhagawati as a true gentleman, a great soul and a fatherly figure who contributed much in building RGU during his tenure as its VC from 1993 to 1998.<br \/>\nA two minutes&#8217; silence was observed as a mark of respect to the departed soul, and the university remained closed for a day.<br \/>\nThe RGU Research Scholars&#8217; Forum (RGUSF) also expressed grief over the demise of Prof Bhagawati.<br \/>\n&#8220;Absolutely shocked and pained to hear about his death. He was a distinguished anthropologist who created a great intellectual impact on the study of humans and human nature. His research works in the field of anthropology serve as a manual for many young researchers in designing studies, writing papers and reviewing literature. Our deepest condolences to his family, associates, and countless students,&#8221; the RGURSF stated in a condolence message on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RONO HILLS, Oct 29: Former vice-chancellor of the then Arunachal University (now Rajiv Gandhi University), Prof AC Bhagawati, passed away in a hospital in Guwahati (Assam) on 26 October. He was 82, and is survived by his wife, a daughter and a son. A condolence meeting was held at RGU on 28 October in honour [&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-83252","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\/83252","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=83252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}