Rajendra Bhandari

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

Rajendra Bhandari
Born	1956 (age 68–69) Kalimpong, West Bengal, India
Occupation	Poet, writer
Language	Nepali
Nationality	Indian

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] 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.^[3]

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]

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^[1]
• 1986: Yee shabdaharu: yee harafharu ("These Words: These Lines"), Gangtok, Sikkim: Jana Paksha Prakashan^[1]
• 1998: Kshar/Akshar ("Perishable/ Imperishable"), Gangtok, Sikkim: Jana Paksha Prakashan^[1]