{"id":96871,"date":"2019-12-25T15:22:29","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T22:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=96871"},"modified":"2019-12-25T15:22:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T22:22:29","slug":"renowned-hindi-author-ganga-prasad-vimal-dies-in-road-accident-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/12\/25\/renowned-hindi-author-ganga-prasad-vimal-dies-in-road-accident-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Renowned Hindi author Ganga Prasad Vimal dies in road accident in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The 80-year-old author was travelling along with his family in a van, which crashed into a container truck. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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COLOMBO:  Renowned Hindi author Ganga Prasad Vimal and his two family members were killed in a road accident in southern Sri Lanka, police said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 80-year-old author was travelling along with his family in a van, which crashed into a container truck from behind on the Southern Expressway in Kurundugahahathapma area on Monday night, they said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vimal and two of his family members were killed on the spot while a local driver died on the way to hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two more persons sustained injuries. The van was heading towards Colombo from the southern port town of Galle when the accident took place, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1939 in Uttarkashi, a Himalayan town in Uttarakhand, Vimal held key responsibilities in Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi University and Kendriya Hindi Sansthan, Agra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He wrote more than one dozen poetry collections, short story collections and novels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His last novel, Manushkhor, was published in 2013. He received several Hindi literary awards.Stay up to date on all the latest Nation<\/a> news with The New Indian Express App. Download now<\/a>(Get the news that matters from New Indian Express on WhatsApp. Click this link and hit ‘Click to Subscribe’<\/a>. Follow the instructions after that.)\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy PTI The 80-year-old author was travelling along with his family in a van, which crashed into a container truck. COLOMBO:  Renowned Hindi author Ganga Prasad Vimal and his two family members were killed in a road accident in southern Sri Lanka, police said on Wednesday. The 80-year-old author was travelling along with his family […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}