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Rajendra Bhandari
Rajendra Bhandari (born 1956) is an Indian Nepali-language poet and academic at the Sikkim Government College in Gangtok.Web page title"Rajendra Bhandari"at the Poetry International website, retrieved July 25, 2010 Biography Born in brahmin family of Kalimpong, 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. 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 "earin poetry" article: * 1979: ''Hiundey yee chisa raatka pardeharuma'' ("In the Veils of Cold Wintry Nights"), Gangtok, Sikkim: Padm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nepali Language
Nepali (; , ) is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Himalayas region of South Asia. It is the official, and most widely spoken, language of Nepal, where it also serves as a '' lingua franca''. Nepali has official status in the Indian state of Sikkim and in the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration of West Bengal. It is spoken by about a quarter of Bhutan's population. Nepali also has a significant number of speakers in the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Uttarakhand. In Myanmar it is spoken by the Burmese Gurkhas. The Nepali diaspora in the Middle East, Brunei, Australia and worldwide also use the language. Nepali is spoken by approximately 16 million native speakers and another 9 million as a second language. Nepali is commonly classified within the Eastern Pahari group of the Northern zone of Indo-Aryan. The language originated from the Sinja Valley, Karnali Province then the capital city of the Khasa K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1998 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * May 12 — John Montague is named as first holder of The Ireland Chair of Poetry. * August — English poet and playwright Tony Harrison's film-poem ''Prometheus'' is first shown. * Fall — '' Skanky Possum'' poetry magazine founded in Austin, Texas. * ''Samizdat'' poetry magazine founded in Chicago (it will run until 2004). Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Australia * Robert Gray, ''New Selected Poems'' * Jennifer Harrison, ''Dear B'' (Black Pepper) * Frieda Hughes, ''Wooroloo'', English-born Australian poet, originally published in United States by Harper Flamingo * John Leonard, editor, ''Australian Verse: An Oxford Anthology'', Melbourne: Oxford University Press (anthology) * Philip Salom, ''New and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of North Bengal Alumni
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Academic Staff Of Sikkim University
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Nepali-language Poets
Nepali (; , ) is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Himalayas region of South Asia. It is the official, and most widely spoken, language of Nepal, where it also serves as a ''lingua franca''. Nepali has official status in the Indian state of Sikkim and in the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration of West Bengal. It is spoken by about a quarter of Bhutan's population. Nepali also has a significant number of speakers in the states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Uttarakhand. In Myanmar it is spoken by the Burmese Gurkhas. The Nepali diaspora in the Middle East, Brunei, Australia and worldwide also use the language. Nepali is spoken by approximately 16 million native speakers and another 9 million as a second language. Nepali is commonly classified within the Eastern Pahari group of the Northern zone of Indo-Aryan. The language originated from the Sinja Valley, Karnali Province then the capital city of the Khasa Kingdom aroun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Kalimpong District
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Indian Poets
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1956 Births
Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, are killed for trespassing by the Huaorani people of Ecuador, shortly after making contact with them. * January 16 – Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser vows to reconquer Palestine (region), Palestine. * January 25–January 26, 26 – Finnish troops reoccupy Porkkala, after Soviet Union, Soviet troops vacate its military base. Civilians can return February 4. * January 26 – The 1956 Winter Olympics open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. February * February 11 – British Espionage, spies Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean (spy), Donald Maclean resurface in the Soviet Union, after being missing for 5 years. * February 14–February 25, 25 – The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union is held in Mosc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1986 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *March 4 — Ronald Reagan, President of the United States, publicly recites from memory lines from Robert W. Service's ''The Cremation of Sam McGee'' (1907) *December 18 — Pforzheimer Collection of the works of Percy Bysshe Shelley and his circle donated to the New York Public Library * John Montague becomes the first occupant of the Ireland Chair of Poetry *Dissident Russian poet Dmitri Prigov is arrested by the K.G.B for distributing his samizdat poetry and briefly confined in a psychiatric hospital before being freed after protests by other poets such as Bella Akhmadulina *''New American Writing'', an annual literary magazine concentrating on poetry, is founded in Chicago * English poet Wendy Cope's ''Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis'' is a best-seller Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published and agai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sikkim Government College
Nar Bahadur Bhandari Government College, formerly Sikkim Government College, Tadong, established in 1977, is the general degree college in Gangtok, the capital of the North Indian province of Sikkim. It offers undergraduate and post graduate courses in arts, commerce and sciences and is affiliated to Sikkim University.It is B++ NAAC accredited. History The college was established in September 1977 by an Act of State Legislature. The campus is spread over 22 acres in Tadong, 5 km from Gangtok, the Capital of Sikkim and has good road connectivity with different districts of Sikkim and also with the neighboring state of West Bengal. The College is affiliated to Sikkim University and is governed by Directorate of Higher Education, Human Resource Development Department, Government of Sikkim. It offers 19 UG courses and 5 PG courses and is affiliated to Sikkim University. Departments Science *Chemistry (UG Hons & PG Courses) *Physics (UG Hons & PG Courses)) *Mathematics (UG Hons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1979 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * ''The Kenyon Review'' is restarted by Kenyon College in the United States 10 years after the original publication was closed. * ''Jahrbuch der Lyrik'' ("Poetry Yearbook"), an annual poetry anthology, is launched in Germany, nine years before the similar series ''The Best American Poetry'' is begun. Each year's edition, containing 100 poems, is published in the spring by Beck, and is edited by Christoph Buchwald along with a guest editor. * '' Poetry Canada Review'' founded by Clifton Whiten in order to publish and review poetry from across Canada; the publication folds in 1994. Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Australia * Robert Adamson ''Where I Come From'' * Robert Gray, ''Grass script'' * Jennifer Maiden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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