{"id":1968,"date":"2014-11-23T10:55:36","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T10:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2014-11-23T10:57:15","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T10:57:15","slug":"social-activist-gopalakrishnan-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/?p=1968","title":{"rendered":"Social activist Gopalakrishnan passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kozhikode : <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Body of N Gopalakrishnan, writer and social activist who died here on Wednesday morning, will be cremated at the Mavoor Road crematorium on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Gopalakrishnan (80) died at a private hospital here following a heart attack.<\/p>\n<p>After his retirement as member of claims tribunal of Indian Railways in 1984, Gopalakrishnan was actively engaged in social and cultural activities in the city.<\/p>\n<p>He had translated former prime minister P V Narasimha Rao&#8217;s autobiography into Malayalam and K P Ramanunni&#8217;s Sufi Paranja Katha into English.<\/p>\n<p>He also translated M T Vasudevan Nair&#8217;s novel Varanasi into English. He won the Kendra Sahitya Akademi&#8217;s award for translation in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Gopalakrishnan was also an active member of the Kozhikode Pain and Palliative Society and was in the forefront of collecting fund for the Society.<\/p>\n<p>source: http:\/\/www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com \/ The Times of India \/ Home&gt; City&gt; Kozhikode \/ TNN \/ November 20th, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kozhikode : Body of N Gopalakrishnan, writer and social activist who died here on Wednesday morning, will be cremated at the Mavoor Road crematorium on Friday. Gopalakrishnan (80) died at a private hospital here following a heart attack. After his retirement as member of claims tribunal of Indian Railways in 1984, Gopalakrishnan was actively engaged &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/?p=1968\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Social activist Gopalakrishnan passes away<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artsculture-entertainment","category-leaders","category-records-all"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1972,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions\/1972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}