Arati Tagore
Arati Tagore (1937–1979) was born in Guwahati, Assam, on 25 June 1937. She was the daughter of Dr. Dinanath Sharma, who was the recipient of the Nehru Award and was also the founder editor of the famous Assamese journal “Awahan”. Arati Tagore’s husband was the late Shri Shubho Tagore, a famous artist, journalist, poet, collector and the editor, publisher of the famous Bengali art journal “Sundaram”. They had three children: Chitralekha Sen Tagore, Siddhartha Tagore and Sundaram Tagore. Arati Tagore’s brother is Dr. Dilip Sharma, a famous musician in Assam. Her other brother is Deepak Sharma, who is now settled in Norway, and her other sisters, Minati Bye and Awanti Flatabo, are also settled in Norway. Arati Tagore was also a famous singer from Assam and used to sing for All India Radio in the 1950s and 60s, and she had also recorded discs with HMV. She also wrote many novels in Assamese, the most famous being “Lohitor Pare”. She had also translated many books from English to Assamese and Bengali for the American Library. The most famous was “The Autobiography of the Wright Brothers”. Arati Tagore was also a journalist and used to write for the Hindustan Times, Sunday Magazine and for Assamese journals. She was one of the jury members of the award committee for films and was also a member of the Film Censor Board in the mid-70s until her death. She died on 16 August 1979.
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