Pritish Nandy
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Pritish Nandy (born 15 January 1951) is an Indian poet, painter, scholar, radio and television presenter, as well as an animal activist and film producer.
He served in Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament, representing Maharashtra's Shiv Sena.
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, eastern India, to a Bengali Christian family. He is the son of Satish Chandra Nandy and Prafulla Nalini Nandy, as well as Ashis Nandy and Manish Nandy. Rangita Pritish-Nandy (born 1978) and Ishita Pritish-Nandy (born 1980) are film designers, writers, and show runners. Kushan Nandy (born 1972) is a film producer, writer, and director. Pritish Nandy was educated at La Martiniere College and, for a short time, at Presidency College in Kolkata, where he spent the first 28 years of his life. Nandy's mother served as a teacher at La Martiniere Calcutta and later became the school's first Indian vice principal.
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. 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. Nandy's poem Calcutta If You Must Exile Me is considered a pioneering classic in modern Indian literature.
The Government of India conferred on him the Padma Shri in 1977 for his contribution to Indian literature. 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. His Collected Poems are being published by Seagull Books.
Journalistic career
He was publishing director of The Times of India between 1982 and 1991. He was also managing editor of the group and editor and publisher of The Illustrated Weekly of India during its most successful decade. He was also editor and publisher of ‘’The Independent’’, a newspaper launched by the same group and ‘’Filmfare’’ the popular magazine.
Nandy left The Times of India group to start his own media company Pritish Nandy Communications which was founded in 1993. He is currently chairman of Pritish Nandy Communications Ltd, popularly known as PNC and well known for its films, TV shows and streamed content.
He is also a columnist with The Times of India, Dainik Bhaskar, Divya Bhaskar and Sangbad Pratidin. His regular column appears in ‘’Mumbai Mirror’’ and his blog on Times Online. 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.
Political career
Pritish Nandy was elected to the Rajya Sabha representing Maharashtra, the upper house of the Indian parliament, in July 1998. He was elected on a Shiv Sena ticket. 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.
Nandy 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.
Awards
- Padma Shri 1977 received from the President of India
- Karmaveer Puraskaar 2008 [1]
- International Humanitarian Award at the Genesis Awards 2012 in Hollywood, organised by the Humane Society of the United States.
- Bangladesh Liberation War Award received from the Prime Minister of Bangladesh