Lata Mangeshkar honoured with Bangabibhushan award
Q. Which legendary singer was conferred the Bangabibhushan honour in Sept 2016?- Published on 20 Sep 16a. Asha Bhosle
b. Lata Mangeshkar
c. Shubha Mudgal
d. None of the above
ANSWER: Lata Mangeshkar
Legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar has been honoured with the 2016 Bangabibhushan by the West Bengal government
- CM Mamata Banerjee said the honour was in recognition of her innumerable memorable Bengali songs
- The award will be conferred after Durga Puja
- Trinamool Congress has been conferring this award to eminent people in their fields for contributions since 2011
- Dancer Amala Shankar was the first person to receive the award
Other awardees:2011
- Mahashweta Devi- Literature
- Sandhya Mukhopadhyay- Music (Bengali Modern Songs)
- Supriya Devi- Film (acting)
- Manna Dey- Music (Bengali Modern Songs and Hindi Film Music)
- Amjad Ali Khan: Music (Indian Classical Instrumental)
- Dwijen Mukhopadhyay: Music (Rabindra Sangeet and Bengali Modern Songs)
- Shailen Manna: Sports (Football)
- Haradhan Bandopadhyay: Film (acting)
2012
- Suchitra Sen: Film (acting)
- Leslie Claudius: Sports (hockey)
- Jogen Chowdhury: Painting
- Rudraprasad Sengupta: Theatre
- Bibhas Chakraborty: Theatre
- Shaoli Mitra: Theatre
- Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay: Literature
- Sanjeev Chattopadhyay: Literature
- Goutam Ghosh: Film (Direction)
- Joy Goswami:Literature
- Ranjit Mullick: Film (acting)
- Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty: Music (Hindustani Classical)
- Ustad Ali Ahmed Hussein Khan: Music (Sehnai)
2013
- Mithun Chakraborty: Film (acting)
- Thankamani Kutti: Dancer
- B.K. Birla: Industrialist
- Ritupurno Ghosh: Film Maker
- Sandhya Roy: Actor
- Sabitri Chatterjee: Actor: Purnadas Baul: Singer
- Subhaprasanna: Painter
- Amitabha Chowdhury: Journalist
- Sourav Ganguly: Sports
2014
- Lepcha tribal leader Sonam Tshering Lepcha,
- Vocalist ArunBhaduri, proprietor of “jatra” (folk theatre) group
- Natta Company Makhanlal Natta,
- Physician Sukumar Mukherjee,
- Film stars Madhabi Mukhopadhyay and Dipankar De,
- Justice Md Abdul Gani,
- Writer Nrisingha Prasad Bhaduri,
- Educationist Felix Raj,
- Singers Haimanti Shukla and Mohan Singh,
- Dancer Alakananda Roy,
- Footballer Bhutia,
- Former soccer internationals Bidesh Bose, Goutam Sarkar, Shabbir Ali and Shyam Thapa,
- Sarod maestro Tejendranarayan Majumder,
- Social activist Md Abdul Wahab,
- Journalist Bachan Singh Saral
- Tribal leader Birsa Tirkey,
- Actors Debashree Roy and Aparajita Adya,
- Singers Srikanta Acharya, Indranil Sen, Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta, Indrani Sen, Lopamudra Mitra, cricketers Laxmi Ratan Shukla and Manoj Tiwary,
- Chess grandmaster Surya Sekhar Ganguly.
