For a Bengali Champion - to be eligible for being considered for Bharat Ratna - He/She has to win a Nobel/Oscar/Grammy before
Ravi Shankar - First Grammy in 1967, Bharat Ratna in 1999
Satyajit Ray - Oscar - April 1992, Bharat Ratna - Posthumously later in the same year.
Amartya Sen - Nobel in Economics - 1998, Bharat Ratna - 1999
Tagore - Nobel in literature - 1913, not considered good enough for Bharat Ratna yet
There are innumerable Bengalis who have enriched and inspired not only their nation but the entire human kind by their expertise - Netaji, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Satyen Bose, Vivekananda, Ramkrishna Paramhansa, Dr. Subhas Mukherjee, Kishore Kumar, R.D. Burman, Sunil Gangopadhyay, to name only a few. Scores of Freedom fighters who laid down their lives at a tender age in the freedom struggle of India - unlike Nehru and other Ratna politicians. Masters who displayed their talent and competed with the best in the world - not before a select group of nations - real giants, no little masters.
Ravi Shankar - First Grammy in 1967, Bharat Ratna in 1999
Satyajit Ray - Oscar - April 1992, Bharat Ratna - Posthumously later in the same year.
Amartya Sen - Nobel in Economics - 1998, Bharat Ratna - 1999
Tagore - Nobel in literature - 1913, not considered good enough for Bharat Ratna yet
There are innumerable Bengalis who have enriched and inspired not only their nation but the entire human kind by their expertise - Netaji, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Satyen Bose, Vivekananda, Ramkrishna Paramhansa, Dr. Subhas Mukherjee, Kishore Kumar, R.D. Burman, Sunil Gangopadhyay, to name only a few. Scores of Freedom fighters who laid down their lives at a tender age in the freedom struggle of India - unlike Nehru and other Ratna politicians. Masters who displayed their talent and competed with the best in the world - not before a select group of nations - real giants, no little masters.
