AMU to award D. Lit to AR Rahman, Ratan Tata

Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) is all set to award D. Lit to music maestro AR Rahman and Ratan Tata. The honourary doctorate by the University is in recognition of the services and achievements by the duo.

The Univeristy will be awarding honourary doctorate to famous agricultural scientist M S Swaminathan as well.




AR Rahman has bagged all the important awards recently. Be it Golden Globe or Bafta, he has received all the important awards and now with Oscars he has reached a success unheard of for any India music composer.

Indian leaders, media professionals and people in industry all are lining up one after the other to congratulate the maestro.
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Sigh who is recuperating after a heart surgery too has congratulated Allah Rakkha Rahman (full name of AR Rahman). Prime Minister Manmohan Singh underwent a heart bypass surgery four weeks ago.
President Pratibha Patil too has sent a congratulatory note for the maestro.
Tamil Nadu chief minister N Karunanidhi has called AR Rahman’s feat as pinnacle of achievement.
In a press release the chief minister who himself is a well known poet and writer said "Classic Tamil and six crore (60 million) Tamils are rejoicing over the pinnacle of achievement of this worthy son of Chennai," Karunanidhi said in a statement.


Courtesy: khabrein.info