Rajendra Bhandari

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Rajendra Bhandari
Born1956
Kalimpong, West Bengal, India
OccupationPoet, writer
Language Nepali
NationalityIndian

Rajendra Bhandari (born 1956) is an Indian Nepali-language poet and academic at the Sikkim Government College in Gangtok. [1]

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Biography

Born in brahmin family of Kalimpong, Darjeeling district, [2] 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. [1]

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. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Web page titled "Rajendra Bhandari" Archived 30 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 25, 2010
  2. "Global in Gangtok - India - Poetry International". www.poetryinternational.org. Retrieved 16 December 2021.