{"id":3145,"date":"2020-03-14T19:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/2020\/03\/14\/prominent-literary-figure-bhandari-passes-away\/"},"modified":"2020-03-14T19:20:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T13:35:00","slug":"prominent-literary-figure-bhandari-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/2020\/03\/14\/prominent-literary-figure-bhandari-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Prominent literary figure Bhandari passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prof Dr Durga Prasad Bhandari, an eminent literary figure of contemporary Nepali literature, has passed away this morning owing to pneumonia complication. He was 85.<\/p>\n<p>Prose writer Bhandari, who was being treated at HAMS Hospital in Dhumbarahi, breathed his last at 11.30 am today, his family sources confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Dr Bhandari had taught English literature at Tribhuvan University for around 38 years. He has established his good name in Nepali literature as an eminent and vocal speaker.<\/p>\n<p>Possessing elevated knowledge about global as well Nepali literature and a highly intellect personality, Bhandari also had a good command in English, Nepali and Sanskrit languages.<\/p>\n<p>He was a noted prose writer and a popular columnist. He has his four published anthology of prose including Mrigasthali, Roti, Niro Basuri Bajairahechha and Ful,<\/p>\n<p>He also used to deliver speech on literature and contemporary affairs via radio programmes.<\/p>\n<p>Having ancestral home in Doti, Prof Dr Bhandari was a democrat by belief. He is survived by two sons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof Dr Durga Prasad Bhandari, an eminent literary figure of contemporary Nepali literature, has passed away this morning owing to pneumonia complication. He was 85&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[332,330],"class_list":["post-3145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-kathmandu","tag-nepal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepalarchives.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}