Family
Two weeks before his 76th birthday, Vishnu Kant Shastri was travelling on the Danapur Express to Patna, intending to provide a discourse on Gita, when he suffered a fatal heart attack. He was married to Indira Devi from January 26, 1953 until her death in 1988. They had one daughter, Bharti Sharma, who survives him.
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