{"id":16587,"date":"2022-01-26T11:41:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T06:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=16587"},"modified":"2022-01-27T16:14:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T10:44:46","slug":"veteran-singer-sandhya-mukherjee-refuses-padma-shri-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/veteran-singer-sandhya-mukherjee-refuses-padma-shri-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Veteran singer Sandhya Mukherjee refuses Padma Shri award"},"content":{"rendered":"

Veteran singer Sandhya Mukherjee refused the Padma Shri award on Tuesday saying it is more deserving of a junior artiste and not someone of her stature. She is the second person from West Bengal to refuse a civilian honour. Former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee\u00a0on Tuesday had turned down the Padma Bhushan award<\/a>, stating that he was not aware that he had been named for it, and he would reject it if it were so.<\/p>\n

Sandhya Mukherjee\u2019s daughter Soumi Sengupta was quoted in a news report<\/a> saying that her mother had told a senior official who called from Delhi that she was not willing to be named as a Padma Shri recipient and felt \u201cinsulted\u201d at being offered the award at her age. \u201cAt 90, with a singing career spanning over about eight decades, being chosen for Padma Shri is demeaning for a singer of her stature,\u201d Sengupta was quoted saying.<\/p>\n

Padma Shri, awarded for \u201cdistinguished service\u201d, is the fourth highest civilian honour in the country after Bharat Ratna, Padma Vibhushan and Padma Bhushan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Veteran singer Sandhya Mukherjee refused the Padma Shri award on Tuesday saying it is more deserving of a junior artiste and not someone of her stature. She is the second person from West Bengal to refuse a civilian honour. Former West Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee\u00a0on Tuesday had turned down the Padma Bhushan award, stating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1236,"featured_media":16588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[487,145,375,5551,5552],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nation","8":"tag-buddhadeb-bhattacharjee","9":"tag-central-government","10":"tag-centre-state-relations","11":"tag-padma-awards","12":"tag-sandhya-mukherjee"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16587"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16595,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16587\/revisions\/16595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16587"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=16587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}