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Pritish Nandy | |
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 Nandy at the 41st International Film Festival of India in 2010 | |
| Born | 15 January 1951 |
| Died | 8 January 2025 (aged 73) Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
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| Works | Calcutta If You Must Exile Me |
| Children | 3; including Kushan |
| Relatives | Ashis Nandy (brother) |
| Awards | Padma Shri |
Pritish Nandy (15 January 1951 – 8 January 2025) was an Indian poet, painter, journalist, politician, media and television personality, animal activist and maker of films, television and streaming content.[1] He was a parliamentarian in the Rajya Sabha from Maharashtra, elected on a ticket from the Shiv Sena.[2] He authored forty books of poetry in English and translated poems by other writers from Bengali, Urdu and Punjabi into English as well as a new version of the Isha Upanishad. Apart from these, he authored books of stories and non fiction as well as three books of translations of classical love poetry from Sanskrit. He was the Publishing Director of The Times of India Group between 1982 and 1991, and also served as editor for The Illustrated Weekly of India, The Independent, and Filmfare.[3] He held six exhibitions of his paintings and calligraphy. He founded Pritish Nandy Communications Ltd, the content company, in 1993. He also founded People for Animals, India's first animal rights NGO with Maneka Gandhi.[4]
- ^ "Sahitya Akademi : Who's Who of Indian Writers". Sahitya Akademi. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
- ^ Rajya Sabha Members Biographical Sketches 1952–2019 (PDF). New Delhi: Rajya Sabha Secretariat. 2019. p. 322.
- ^ "Pritish Nandy, veteran poet and journalist dies at 73; Anupam Kher pays heartfelt tribute to 'yaaron ka yaar'". The Economic Times.
- ^ "Pritish Nandy, man of many parts, bows out". The Times of India. 9 January 2025. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 11 January 2025.