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Suchitra Mitra
Background information
Born
(1924-09-19)19 September 1924 Gujhandi, Bihar, British India
Died
3 January 2011(2011-01-03) (aged 86) Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Genres
Playback singing, Rabindrasangeet
Occupation(s)
Singer
Years active
1941–2011
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. 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.
^Dutta, Krishna (2003). "Cities of Imagination: Calcutta". Calcutta: a cultural and literary history. Signal Books. p. 226. ISBN 1-902669-59-2.
^"Journalist to be new sheriff". The Times of India. 24 December 2009. Archived from the original on 11 August 2011.
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