Renowned Singer Sudakshina Sarma Passes Away at 89 in Assam northeasttoday.in - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from northeasttoday.in Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Noted singer Sudakshina Sarma died in Guwahati on Monday following prolonged age-related ailments, doctors said.
Sarma, the younger sister of Assam s icon Bhupen Hazarika, was 89.
She is survived by a daughter, while her singer husband Dilip Sarma and two sons had predeceased her.
Sarma was
BY SANKAR RAY Preeti Banerjee (nee Sarkar) who first sang Sare Jahanse Achchha Hindostan Hamara, the lyric of Mohammad Iqbal (written in 1904), scored anew into a song by Pandit Ravi Shankar in 1945 at the Andheri commune of Indian Peoples Theatre Association in Bombay would have been 100-plus, had she been alive today. Born