The last rites of President Pranab Mukherjee's wife Suvra will be held on Wednesday at Delhi's Lodhi crematorium. The 75-year-old Suvra Mukherjee died on Tuesday following a cardiac arrest on August 7 and she was admitted to a hospital.
She was under treatment at the Army (Research and Referral) Hospital, Delhi.
Her body was kept at Rashtrapati Bhavan where Vice President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, former prime minister Manmohan Singh and several other leaders paid tribute.
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will attend the funeral ceremony of the late First Lady.
Suvra Mukherjee ancestral home was at Bhadrabila village in western Bangladesh's Narail district which she had visited last in March 2013. Gloom descended on the with grief-stricken relatives gathering there.
Suvra Mukherjee was born on September 17, 1940 in Jessore in Bangladesh and migrated at the age of 10 to Kolkata. She married Pranab Mukherjee on July 13, 1957. They have a daughter Sharmistha Mukherjee and two sons Abhijit Mukherjee and Indrajit Mukherjee.
A graduate, Suvra Mukherjee was an ardent fan of poet Rabindranath Tagore. She was a vocalist of Rabindra Sangeet and performed in the poet’s dance-dramas for long years not only in different parts of India, but also in Europe, Asia and Africa.
Suvra Mukherjee founded the Geetanjali Troupe, whose mission is to propagate Tagore’s philosophy as expressed through his songs and dance-dramas. She was the guiding force behind all productions of the troupe.
She was also a highly talented painter who had many group and solo exhibitions to her credit. She considered her mother who was herself a painter as the source of her creative inspiration and her works won critical acclaim.
Suvra Mukherjee has written two books: "Chokher Aloey", a personal account of her close interaction with late prime minister Indira Gandhi, and "Chena Achenai Chin", a travelogue on her visit to China.
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