KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA

GOLE MARKET
NEW DELHI-110001
 
ENGLISH AIL PROJECT
SUBMITTED TO: MS. JYOTI PRASAD
SUBMITTED BY: SATYAM KUMAR
XII-F
 CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that SATYAM KUMAR of class XII-F of Kendriya

Vidyalaya Gole Market have done his AIL ENGLISH project on
“POETS OF SIKKIM” under my supervision. He has taken interest
and has shown utmost sincerity in completion of this project.
I certify this Project up to my expectation & as per guidelines issued
by CBSE, NEW DELHI.
 ACKNOWLEDGMENT
It is with pleasure that I acknowledge my sincere gratitude to our teacher,
MS. JYOTI PRASAD who taught and undertook the responsibility of teaching the
subject English. I have been greatly benefited from his classes.
I am especially indebted to our Principal Mr. Pravin Kumar Malik who has always
been a source of encouragement and support and without whose inspiration this
project would not have been a successful I would like to place on record heartfelt
thanks to him.
Finally, I would like to express my sincere appreciation for all the other students
for my batch their friendship & the fine times that we all shared together.
 
GADUL SINGH LAMA

BORN: 15 JUNE 1939

FROM: GANGTOK, SIKKIM,
INDIA
 GADUL SINGH LAMA POPULARLY KNOWN AS
SANU LAMA IS AN INDIAN FICTIONAL WRITER,
POET AND TRANSLATOR OF NEPALI LITERATURE.
FOR HIS CONTRIBUTION TO LITERATURE,
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA AWARDED HIM THE
FORTH HIGHEST CIVILIAN HONOUR PADMA SHRI
IN 2005.

 HE IS A RECIPIENT OF SAHITYA AKADEMI AWARD

(1993) FOR ‘MRIGATRISHNA, APART FROM OTHER
AWARDS SUCH AS SIKKIM BHANU PURASKAR, DR.
SHOVA KANTI THEGIM SMRITHI PURASKAR AND
MADAN BYAKHANMALA PURASKAR.
 LATER, HE JOINED THE SIKKIM STATE
GOVERNMENT SERVICE AS AN ENGINEER AND
SERVED THERE FOR 38 YEARS BEFORE
SUPERANNUATING AS THE CHIEF ENGINEER.
LAMA STARTED WRITING FROM HIS SCHOOL
DAYS AND IS REPORTED TO HAVE BEEN
INSPIRED BY ONE OF HIS TEACHERS, RASHMI
PRASAD ALLEY.

HE IS AN ENGINEER BY PROFESSION, SECURED

A DIPLOMA IN ENGINEERING FROM MBC
INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING, BURDWAN IN
WEST BENGAL, IN 1959.
HIS FIRST ARTICLE WAS PUBLISHED IN CHANGYA,
A LOCAL LITERARY MAGAZINE. HE PUBLISHED HIS
FIRST SHORT STORY ANTHOLOGY, KATHA
SAMPAD, IN 1971, COMPOSED OF STORIES SUCH
AS SWASNI MANCHEY, KHANI TARMA
EKDIN, PHURBHALE GAUN
CHADYO AND ASINAPO MANCHEY, WHICH HAS
SINCE BEEN SELECTED AS A PRESCRIBED TEXT
FOR THE CIVIL SERVICES EXAMINATION OF THE
UNION PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION.
 SANU LAMA IS ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF
THE BHRATIYA NEPALI RASHTRIYA PARISHAD.
 HE IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE SIKKIM AKADEMI, IS
A FORMER MEMBER OF THE ADVISORY BOARD
FOR NEPALI LITERATURE OF THE SAHITYA
AKADEMI AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE
HIMALAYALAN WRITERS' FORUM. BESIDES THE
1993 SAHITYA AKADEMI AWARD, HE HAS RECEIVED
AWARDS SUCH AS SIKKIM BHANU PURASKAR, DR.
SHOVA KANTI THEGIM SMRITHI PURASKAR AND
MADAN BYAKHANMALA PURASKAR.
CURRENTLY HE LIVES IN GANGTOK, THE CAPITAL OF
SIKKIM.