Kolkata To Celebrate International Music Festival in December, Says CM Mamata Banerjee
The international music event will be conducted every night at the Red Road with international musicians performing along with Indian and Bengali performers.
The West Bengal government will organize an International music festival in Kolkata in December, as said by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday.
Addressing a function where she fetes prestigious people of different fields with Banga Bhushan Samman and Banga Bibhushan Samman, Banerjee mentioned that the music event will be conducted every night at the Red Road with international musicians performing along with Indian and Bengali performers.
Distinctive personalities in the field, including Nobel laureate economist Abhijit Banerjee, prestigious economist Kaushik Basu and nuclear physicist Bikash Sinha, were conferred with the Banga Bibhushan Samman — the loftiest mercenary honor presented by the state government.
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The award receivers
Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen wasn't present to admit the award as he was out of the country. His name was also not mentioned in the program.
Industrialists Radhe Shyam Goenka and Harshavardhan Neotia, classical musician Pt Debajyoti Basu, filmmaker Srijit Mukherji and football clubs Mohun Bagan, East Bengal, and Mohammedan Sporting were among the other donors. Twenty personalities were given the Banga Bhushan Samman.
Among them were prestigious croaker Monimoy Banerjee, minstrel Srijato Bandyopadhyay, actor, and TMC MP Dev, and state Women’s Commission speaker Leena Gangopadhyay.
Stager intelligencers Jayanta Ghoshal and Debashis Bhattacharya were also given the award. Actors Soham Chakraborty and Nusrat Jahan, who's also a TMC MP, were conferred with the Mahanayak Samman, in memory of matinee megastar Uttam Kumar.
