Pritish Nandy

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Pritish Nandy

Date of Birth

: 1/15/1951

Place of Birth

Awards

: National Science Talent Scholar 1964 American Field Service Scholar, 1964 Homi Bhabha Fellow, 1982 E. M. Forster Padmashri, 1977 Shrikant Verma Award for Journalism, 1988 Outstanding Citizen Award, 1986 and 1992 Vijaya Ratna Award, 1989 Shiromani Vikas Award, 1990 Priyadarshini Award, 1990 Freedom of Information Award, 1990 Several Rotary, Giant and Lions Awards for Journalism

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Biography : Shri Pritish Nandy (born 15 January 1951) is a poet, journalist, politician, television personality and film producer. He is a member of Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament. He has published a number of poetry books and translated poems by other writers from Bengali into English. Nandy was born in Bhagalpur in the state of Bihar in eastern India. He is the son of Shri Satish Chandra Nandy and Shrimati Prafulla Nalini Nandy. He was educated at La Martiniere College and, briefly, at Presidency College in Kolkata.[1] Nandy's mother was a teacher at La Martiniere Calcutta and subsequently became the school's first Indian vice principal. Nandy's first book of poems Of gods and olives was published in 1967. Three further volumes followed in the 1960s and a further 14 volumes were published in the 1970s. In July 1981 Nandy was nominated as a Poet Laureate by the World Academy of Arts and Culture at the Fifth World Congress of Poets in San Francisco. In 1982 Nandy became a full-time journalist. He was publishing director of The Times of India from 1982 to 1991, and editor of The Illustrated Weekly of India from 1983 to 1991. He has also served as the editor of The Independent and Filmfare. He served concurrently as the publisher of The Illustrated Weekly of India, The Independent, Filmfare, Femina, Science Today, Dharmayug and Madhuri. He is currently a syndicated columnist with The Times of India and over thirty other leading Indian newspapers. Nandy opened India's first cyber café in 1996.

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