Rajendra Bhandari

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

Biography Born in brahmin family of Kalimpong, 1956, Darjeeling district, Bhandari has lived in Gangtok since 1976. He is the son of Bhagirath Bhandari a prominent poet and an astrologer. He received a doctorate in Nepali literature from the University of North Bengal in 2002.

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 , the 1999 Dr. Shova Kanti Thegim Memorial Award for poetry, Sikkim State Government's Sahityashree Award, Bhanu Puraskar from Gangtok and Bhanu Puraskar from Darjeeling along with many other awards in India and Nepal. He participated in 17th World Poetry Festival, Berlin, in 2016 and World Poets Meet, Rome, in 2017, as a support base and solidarity towards the cause of Syrian refugees. He has extensively visited various places of India and Nepal reading his poems. Performed solo-recitations in Kathmandu, Nepal.

His poems deal with the pains and pangs of modern society,degrading cultural ethos including the search for rightful place of Indian Gorkha community in a vast Indian political arena.He has dealt with deep-ecological,ecospiritual urgencies for modern humanity at large.He has a deep concern for the spiritual liberation of man and has a deep knack towards Eastern spiritual wusdom.