Suchitra mitra biography
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Suchitra Mitra
Indian musical artist (1924–2011)
Musical artist
Suchitra Mitra (19 September 1924 – 3 January 2011) was an Indian singer, composer, artist exponent of Rabindra Sangeet or the songs of Bengal's poet laureate Rabindranath Tagore, professor, and the first woman Sheriff of Kolkata.
Suchitra mitra biography
As an academic, she remained a professor and the Head of Rabindra Sangeet Department at the Rabindra Bharati University until 1984. Mitra was a playback singer in Bengali films (and acted in some as well)[1] and was associated for many years with the Indian People's Theatre Association.
Mitra studied at the Scottish Church College, the University of Calcutta and at Visva-Bharati University in West Bengal, India. She was also the Sheriff of Kolkata (2001).[2] After prolonged illness Mitra died of a cardiac ailment on 3 January 2011, in Kolkata.
Early life
Mitra's father, the celebrated littérateur, Saurindra Mohan Mukherjee, was a close associate of the Tagor