Rajendra Bhandari (born 1956) is an Indian
Nepali-language poet and academic at the
Sikkim Government College in
Gangtok
Gangtok (, ) is the capital and the most populous city of the Indian state of Sikkim. The seat of East Sikkim district, eponymous district, Gangtok is in the eastern Himalayas, Himalayan range, at an elevation of . The city's population of 100 ...
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[Web page title]
"Rajendra Bhandari"
at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 25, 2010
Biography
Born in
brahmin
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family of
Kalimpong
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Darjeeling district, Bhandari has lived in Gangtok since the 1980s. He is the son of Bhagirat Bhandari a prominent writer and an astrologer. He received a doctorate in
Nepali literature from the
University of North Bengal
The University of North Bengal (also North Bengal University, abbreviated as NBU) is a public state university in the North Bengal region of West Bengal, India. Its main campus is located in Raja Rammohanpur, Siliguri, Darjeeling district, in ...
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[ He was a Reader in the Nepali Department of the Sikkim Government College at Taong in Gangtok. He has published several collections of poems in Nepali, the first of which appeared in 1979.][EBHR, n°38, 2011, pp.179-180]
Bhandari has won awards for his poetry, including the 1981 Diyalo Purashkar in Poetry from the Nepali Sahitya Sammelan in Darjeeling, the 1998 Shiva Kumar Rai Memorial Award from the South Sikkim Sahitya Sammelan and the 1999 Dr. Shova Kanti Thegim Memorial Award for poetry from the Shovakanti Memorial Trust in Gangtok.[
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Bibliography
Each year links to its corresponding "ear
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in poetry" article:
* 1979
Events
January
* January 1
** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...
: ''Hiundey yee chisa raatka pardeharuma'' ("In the Veils of Cold Wintry Nights"), Gangtok, Sikkim: Padmakala Prakashan[
* ]1986
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations.
Events January
* January 1
** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles.
** Spain and Portugal en ...
: ''Yee shabdaharu: yee harafharu'' ("These Words: These Lines"), Gangtok, Sikkim: Jana Paksha Prakashan[
* ]1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...
: ''Kshar/Akshar'' ("Perishable/ Imperishable"), Gangtok, Sikkim: Jana Paksha Prakashan[
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References
External links
Poetry International
brief biography of Bhandari
Poetry International
2006 interview with Bhandari
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1956 births
Living people
Indian poets
People from Kalimpong district
Nepali-language poets
Academic staff of Sikkim University
University of North Bengal alumni
Nepali-language poets from India
Writers from West Bengal