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Pritish Nandy (born 15 January 1951) is an Indian poet,^[1] painter, journalist, politician, media and television personality, animal activist and film producer. He was member of Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament representing Maharashtra based party Shiv Sena.^[2] He has published a number of poetry books in English and translated poems by other writers from Bengali and Urdu into English.

Early life

Pritish Nandy was born in Bhagalpur in the state of Bihar in eastern India to a Bengali family.^[3] He is the son of Satish Chandra Nandy and Prafulla Nalini Nandy, and brother of Ashis Nandy and Manish Nandy. His son Kushan Nandy(born 1972) is a well known Indian film producer, writer and director. He was educated at La Martiniere College and, briefly, at Presidency College in Kolkata, where he spent the first 28 years of his life.^[2] Nandy's mother was a teacher at La Martiniere Calcutta and subsequently became the school's first Indian vice principal.^[4]

Literary career

Pritish 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.^[5] During the seventies Nandy edited and published a poetry magazine called Dialogue which published many of India's finest poets in English and other languages, in translation. Dialogue also published over forty books of poems, of first time poets as well as famous poets. It became an iconic platform for contemporary Indian poetry, in English and in translation. 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.

The Government of India conferred on him the Padma Shri in 1977 for his contribution to Indian literature.{{citation needed|date = December 2012}} He wrote a new book of poems called Again in 2010 after a long hiatus and then, Stuck on 1/Forty in 2012. In 2014, his version of the Isha Upanishad was published.

Journalistic career

He is currently a columnist with The Times of India and Dainik Bhaskar.^[2] Nandy was one of the first internet evangelists in India and opened India's first cyber café in 1996 at Hotel Leela Kempinski in Mumbai.^[2]

Political career

Pritish Nandy was elected to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament, in July 1998. He was a member of parliament for six years and was on a number of committees including the National Committee to Celebrate 50 years of Independence, the Parliamentary Committee for Defence, the Parliamentary Committee for Communications, the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs.^[2] He headed the Expert Committee for upgradation of the International Film Festival of India set up by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and submitted its findings to the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting in 2011.

Humanitarian work

Pritish Nandy has worked for many causes but is best known as one of the founders of People for Animals, India's largest animal protection NGO that Maneka Gandhi, heads and runs as Chairperson. He received the International Humanitarian Award at the Genesis Awards in Los Angeles in 2012, supported by the Humane Society of the United States, the largest animal protection body in the US.^[8] On 28 November 2012 Pritish Nandy founded World Compassion Day, a platform for promoting the values of compassion and ahimsa, and the first lecture on the occasion was delivered in Mumbai by the 14th Dalai Lama who spoke on the ethical treatment of animals.

Film and television

Nandy founded Pritish Nandy Communications in 1993 and remains its non-executive chairman. The company's first programme was a chat show titled The Pritish Nandy Show which aired on Doordarshan, India's public broadcasting channel. This was the first signature show on Indian television. This was followed by Fiscal Fitness: The Pritish Nandy Business Show, India's first weekly business show, on Zee TV. Nandy has presented over 500 news and current affairs shows on Doordarshan, Zee TV and Sony TV.^[2]

Television content

Films

Awards

Selected works

Books of poems

Verse play

Short stories

Translations

Poetry recordings

Bengali translation

Anthologies edited

Appearances in the following poetry Anthologies

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=Sahitya Akademi : Who's Who of Indian Writers|url=http://sahitya-akademi.gov.in/sahitya-akademi/SASearchSystem/sauser/writerinfo.jsp?wrids=824|website=Sahitya Akademi|publisher=Sahitya Akademi|accessdate=27 October 2015}}
2. ^¹²³⁴⁵Biographical Sketches of Members of Rajya Sabha – 1998 accessed September 2007
3. ^{{cite web | url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/My-greatest-asset-is-audacity-Pritish-Nandy/articleshow/31041934.cms?intenttarget=no | title=My greatest asset is audacity: Pritish Nandy | publisher=The Times of India | date=27 February 2014 | accessdate=1 March 2014}}
4. ^Pritish Nandy. 'A short pause'. Rediff on the net. accessed September 2007
5. ^[https://www.google.com/books?id=zGU5AAAAIAAJ&q=%22Pritish+Nandy%22&dq=%22Pritish+Nandy%22&ie=ISO-8859-1&pgis=1 Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (ed). A History of Indian Literature in English. London: Hurst and Company, p254.] accessed September 2007
6. ^[https://www.google.com/books?id=zGU5AAAAIAAJ&q=%22Pritish+Nandy%22&dq=%22Pritish+Nandy%22&ie=ISO-8859-1&pgis=1 Authors Guild of India: Indian Author, 1981.] accessed September 2007
7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.amitabhmitra.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=27|title="Poetry of Kolkata - Its Hidden Expanse" - by Dr Amitabh Mitra}}
8. ^{{cite web|title=The 26th Genesis Awards Nominees|url=http://www.humanesociety.org/about/events/genesis_awards/26th_nominees.html|publisher=Humane Society|accessdate=19 December 2012|archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20120906141524/http://www.humanesociety.org/about/events/genesis_awards/26th_nominees.html|archive-date=6 September 2012|dead-url=yes|df=dmy-all}}
9. ^http://www.rupapublications.co.in/client/Author/Maneka-Gandhi.aspx {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.is/20120909182604/http://www.rupapublications.co.in/client/Author/Maneka-Gandhi.aspx |date=9 September 2012 }}, http://www.cscsarchive.org:8081/MediaArchive/essays.nsf/(docid)/33C1A7B42645A91D6525693F00383C8D
10. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.screenindia.com/old/april25/tele.htm|title=www.screenindia.com/old/april25/tele.htm}}
11. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.screenindia.com/old/20010914/tvbuz.html |title=www.screenindia.com/old/20010914/tvbuz.html |access-date=21 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100410130622/http://www.screenindia.com/old/20010914/tvbuz.html |archive-date=10 April 2010 |dead-url=yes |df=dmy-all }}
12. ^[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1301329/ Pritish Nandy on the Internet Movie Database] accessed September 2007
13. ^{{Cite web |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/Pritish-Nandy-wins-International-Humanitarian-Award/articleshow/12467248.cms |title=Pritish Nandy wins International Humanitarian Award - Times of India |website=The Times of India |language=en |access-date=2019-03-24}}
14. ^Pritish Nandy (ed.) Book Excerptise: Strangertime: an anthology of Indian Poetry in English (extensive extracts)
15. ^{{cite web |title=Rubana Huq, ed. The Golden Treasury of Writers Workshop Poetry. Review : ASIATIC, VOLUME 3, NUMBER 1, JUNE 2009 |url=http://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/AJELL/article/view/82/67 |website=journals.iium.edu.my |publisher=journals.iium.edu.my |accessdate=4 September 2018}}