SIKKIM: Dr. Rajendra Bhandari to receive Bhanu Puraskar
Posted by barunroy on July 5, 2009
FROM SIKKIM EXPRESS
GANGTOK: Eminent literary figure and a noted academician Dr. Rajendra Bhandari will be conferred with the prestigious Bhanu Puraskar on July 13.
He would be presented a citation, shawl and Rs 21, 001 by the Nepali Sahitya Parishad during the 195th Bhanu Jayanti on July 13, an official release said here today.
Established in 1985, the Nepali Sahitya Parishad has been conferring this award as an encouragement to people who have contributed for the promotion of Nepali language and literature.
Twenty three literary figures have received the award so far.
patleybaskounpad said
whoever was responsible for this award has ultimately realized that the Nepali language at least from the literary point of view has finally come of age…anyone who has read and appreciated Bhandari’s poetry has long realized that this good college teacher is the natural expatriate extension of the great Bhupi Sherchan…
in the poetry of these stalwarts we find representations of a contemporary reality that is as universal and time-defying as the cosmic complexities faced by IB’s ‘hami jastai maina ki ama’ or ‘blackout caju badam chora’….
new generation said
congrats. this is the appropriate decision of organising committee though it is too late.