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AWARDEE

Bharat Ratna Award | 2019 Awardees

Nanaji Deshmukh
Bhupen Hazarika
Pranab Mukherjee

Bharat Ratna Award | 2015 Awardees

Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya (Posthumous)

Bharat Ratna Award | 2014 Awardees

Shri Sachin Tendulkar
Professor C. N. R. Rao

Bharat Ratna Award | 2009 Awardee

Pandit Bhimsen Joshi

Bharat Ratna Award | 2001 Awardees

Ustad Bismillah Khan
Sushri Lata Mangeshkar

Bharat Ratna Award | 1999 Awardees

Pandit Ravi Shankar
Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi (Posthumous)
Professor Amartya Sen
Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan (Posthumous)

Bharat Ratna Award | 1998 Awardees

Shri Chidambaram Subramaniam
Smt M.S. Subbulakshmi

Bharat Ratna Award | 1997 Awardees

Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Smt Aruna Asaf Ali (Posthumous)
Shri Gulzarilal Nanda

Bharat Ratna Award | 1992 Awardees

Shri Satyajit Ray
Shri J.R.D Tata
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (Posthumous)

Bharat Ratna Award | 1991 Awardees

Shri Morarji Desai
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel (Posthumous)
Shri Rajiv Gandhi (Posthumous)

Bharat Ratna Award | 1990 Awardees

Nelson Mandela
Dr B.R Ambedkar

Bharat Ratna Award | 1988 Awardee

Shri M.G Ramachandran

Bharat Ratna Award | 1987 Awardee

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

Bharat Ratna Award | 1983 Awardee

Shri Acharya Vinoba Bhave

Bharat Ratna Award | 1980 Awardee

Mother Teresa

Bharat Ratna Award | 1976 Awardee

Shri K. Kamaraj (Posthumous)

Bharat Ratna Award | 1975 Awardee

Shri V.V Giri

Bharat Ratna Award | 1971 Awardee

Smt Indira Gandhi

Bharat Ratna Award | 1966 Awardee

Shri Lal Bahadur Shashtri (Posthumous)

Bharat Ratna Award | 1963 Awardee

Dr. Pandurang Vaman Kane

Bharat Ratna Award | 1962 Awardees

Dr. Zakir Husain
Dr. Rajendra Prasad

Bharat Ratna Award | 1961 Awardees

Shri Purushottam Das Tandon
Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy

Bharat Ratna Award | 1958 Awardee

Dr. Dhondo Keshav Karve

Bharat Ratna Award | 1957 Awardee

Pt. Govind Ballabh Pant

Bharat Ratna Award | 1955 Awardees

Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru
Dr. M Visvesvaraya
Dr. Bhagwan Das

Bharat Ratna Award | 1954 Awardees

Dr. C.V Raman
Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Shri C. Rajagopalachari

Bhupen Hazarika

(8 September 1926 – 5 November 2011) was an Indian playback singer, lyricist, musician, singer, poet and filmmaker from Assam, widely known as Sudhakantha.

His songs, written and sung mainly in the Assamese language by himself, are marked by humanity and universal brotherhood and have been translated and sung in many languages, most notably in Bengali and
Recipient of Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1987), Padmashri (1977), and Padmabhushan (2001), Hazarika was awarded with Dada Saheb Phalke Award (1992), He was posthumously awarded the Padma Vibhushan, India’s second-highest civilian award, in 2012.He was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award, in 2019.

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Hazarika, who made fame as a musician, was born on 8 September 1926 to Nilakanta and Shantipriya Hazarika in Sadiya , Assam.
The eldest of ten children, Bhupen Hazarika was exposed to the musical influence of his mother, who exposed him to lullabies and traditional Music of Assam.
It was in Tezpur that Bhupen Hazarika in 1935, was discovered by Jyotiprasad Agarwala, the noted Assamese lyricist, playwright and the first Assames Filmmaker and Bishnu Prasad Rabha, renowned Assamese artist and revolutionary poet, where he sang a Borgeet.

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He wrote his first song, Agnijugor Firingoti Moi at the age of 13 and he was well on his way to becoming a lyricist, composer and singer.
Hazarika studied at Sonaram High School at Guwahati, Dhubri Government High School and matriculated from Tezpur High School in 1940. He completed his Intermediate Arts from Cotton College in 1942, and his BA (1944) and MA (1946) in Political Science from Banaras Hindu University. • he won a scholarship from Columbia University and set sail for New York in 1949. There he earned a PhD (1952)

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Hazarika began close association with the leftist Indian People’s Theatre Association soon after returning from the USA in 1953.
Soon after completing his education, he became a teacher at the Gauhati University.
But after a few years, he left the job and went to Kolkata where he established himself as a successful music director and singer. During that period, Hazarika made several award-winning Assamese films such as Shakuntala, Pratidhwani, etc. and composed evergreen music for many Assamese films.

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He contested as a Bharatiya Janata Party candidate in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections from the Guwahati constituency, persuaded by Chandan Mitra via Kalpana Lajm which he lost to the Indian National Congress candidate Kirip Chaliha.
Hazarika was hospitalized in the Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital and Medical Research Institute in Mumbai in 2011. He was admitted to the intensive care unitHe died of multi-organ failure on 5 November 2011.His body lay in state at Judges Field in Guwahati and cremated on 9 November 2011 near the Brahmaputra river in a plot of land donated by Gauhati University. His funeral was attended by an estimated half a million people