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Amitabh Bachchan's name dropped from RBU's D Litt recipients' list: V-C
Published : Apr 28, 2018, 5:26 pm IST
Updated : Apr 28, 2018, 5:26 pm IST
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The Rabindra Bharati University (RBU) has struck off the name of Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan from the list of D Litt recipients

Kolkata: The Rabindra Bharati University (RBU) has struck off the name of Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan from the list of D Litt recipients this year, following a directive from Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi, vice-chancellor Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury said today.       

Tripathi has asked the varsity to not bestow the honorary award on any person in absentia, Chaudhury said. Bachchan had earlier said that he would be unable to receive the D Litt at the RBU's 43rd convocation on May 8, due to prior shooting commitments.     

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The other eminent personalities who would be conferred the D Litt (honoris causa) at the convocation are writer Nabanita Dev Sen, painter Jatin Das and classical vocalist Pt. Amiya Ranjan Bandyopadhyay, the vice-chancellor said.     

The convocation programme will be held at the Jorasanko campus of RBU, the ancestral home of Rabindranath Tagore, a day ahead of the bard's birth anniversary.   

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Veteran painter Rabin Mondal will be given the Hirachand Dugar Memorial Award, while singer Ruma Guha Thakurta and sculptor Niranjan Pradhan will receive the West Bengal State Akademi of Dance Drama Music and Visual Arts awards.   

Danseuse Purnima Ghosh and theatre personality Pankaj Kumar Munshi will be the other recipients of the Akademi Award, Chaudhury added.

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