Updated On: 07 August, 2019 07:29 PM IST | | PTI
US-based Tej Hazarika is New Delhi to receive the country's highest civilian honour to be bestowed on Bhupen Hazarika.

Bhupen Hazarika in 2010 (Picture courtesy/AFP)
Bhupen Hazarika is India's gift to the world and to be awarded the Bharat Ratna posthumously is a powerful state recognition of his extraordinary talent, which he used to educate and inspire Indians from all walks of life, says the iconic balladeer's son.
US-based Tej Hazarika is here to receive the country's highest civilian honour to be bestowed on Bhupenda, as his father is popularly known, on Thursday.