Rajendra Bhandari
{{Short description|Nepalese poet and academic}}
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Rajendra Bhandari (born 1956) is an Indian Nepali-language poet and academic at the Sikkim Government College in Gangtok.Web page titled [http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=7418 "Rajendra Bhandari"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130530191831/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=7418 |date=30 May 2013 }} at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 25, 2010
Biography
Born in brahmin family of Kalimpong, Darjeeling district,{{Cite web|title=Global in Gangtok - India - Poetry International|url=https://www.poetryinternational.org/pi/article/7445/Global-in-Gangtok/en/tile|access-date=2021-12-16|website=www.poetryinternational.org}} 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. 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.
Bibliography
Each year links to its corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- 1979: Hiundey yee chisa raatka pardeharuma ("In the Veils of Cold Wintry Nights"), Gangtok, Sikkim: Padmakala Prakashan
- 1986: Yee shabdaharu: yee harafharu ("These Words: These Lines"), Gangtok, Sikkim: Jana Paksha Prakashan
- 1998: Kshar/Akshar ("Perishable/ Imperishable"), Gangtok, Sikkim: Jana Paksha Prakashan
References
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External links
- [http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=7418 Poetry International] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130530191831/http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=7418 |date=30 May 2013 }} brief biography of Bhandari
- [http://india.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=7445 Poetry International] 2006 interview with Bhandari
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Category:People from Kalimpong district
Category:Nepali-language poets
Category:Academic staff of Sikkim University
Category:University of North Bengal alumni