Pritish Nandy
Pritish Nandy
born 15 January 1951 is a poet, journalist, politician, television
personality and film producer. He is Bengali by ethnicity. He was
member of Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament
representing Maharashtrian party Shiv Sena. 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 to a Bengali family. He is the son of Satish Chandra Nandy and
Prafulla Nalini Nandy, and brother of Ashis Nandy. He was educated at
La Martiniere College and, briefly, at Presidency College in Kolkata.
Nandy's mother was a teacher at La Martiniere Calcutta and subsequently
became the school's first Indian vice principal.
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