Tagore Award
The Tagore Award is an award given in commemoration of the 150th birth anniversary of the Nobel laureate
Pandit Ravi Shankar by the President of India Pranab Mukherjee.[2] Ravi Shankar died before he could receive the award which was received by his wife Sukanya Shankar.[3]
Music conductor Zubin Mehta received the Tagore Award For Cultural Harmony for the year 2013 in recognition of his outstanding contribution to cultural harmony.[4] On 6 September 2013, President of India Pranab Mukherjee conferred the Tagore Award 2013 to Zubin Mehta at a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi.[5]
Recipients
Indicates a posthumous award for that year |
Tagore Award for 2019 is given to Yohei Sasakawa, goodwill ambassador of World Health Organization.
S.No. | Year | Recipient | Image | Birth / death | Country | Description |
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1 | 2012 | Pandit Ravi Shankar[3] | 1920–2012 | India | Hindustani classical composer | |
2 | 2013 | Zubin Mehta[4] | 1936– | India | Western classical conductor
| |
3 | 2014 | Rajkumar Singhajit Singh[6] | 1931– | India | The doyen of Manipuri dance | |
4 | 2015 | Chhayanaut | 1961– | Bangladesh | A cultural organization of Bangladesh | |
5 | 2016 | Ram V. Sutar[7] | 1925– | India | Prime architect of Statue of Unity, the tallest statue in the world | |
6 | 2020 | Raj Kamal Jha | 1966- | India | For book "The city of the sea".[8] |
References
- ^ a b Code of Procedure for the Tagore Award
- ^ Sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar to get Tagore award Zee News, 6 March 2013.
- ^ a b Tagore award for Ravi Shankar
- ^ a b "Zubin Mehta to get Tagore Award". The Hindu. 11 July 2013.
- ^ "Zubin Mehta awarded with Tagore Award 2013 for Cultural Harmony". Retrieved 6 September 2013.
- ^ "Tagore Awards for Cultural Harmony". 26 October 2018. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
- ^ "Statue of Unity sculptor Ram Sutar to be conferred presitigous [sic] Tagore Award for Cultural Harmony". 26 October 2018. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
- ^ "Raj Kamal Jha wins Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize 2020 for The City and the Sea". The Indian Express. 7 December 2020. Retrieved 28 January 2021.