Jan 03, 2011 –

Rabindra Sangeet exponent & Veteran singer Suchitra Mitra passed away at her residence in Kolkata on Monday. Mitra was a respected exponent of the songs of the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore.

She was born to litterateur Saurinder Mohan Mukherjee in 1924. Mitra had a cardiac attack while having lunch at her residence. She died at 1:30 PM.

Unforgettable - Suchitra Mitra

She won Padmashree award in 1973; Tagore Hymn Prize in 1945 from the London Tagore Hymn Society; Sangeet Natak Academy Award in 1986.

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