Melodious Indian Cuckoo Flew Away , The Nightingale is silent forever

(TheQuiver): Legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar passed away today. She was admitted to Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital on January 8 after she tested positive for Covid-19. She was under treatment in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) over the past couple of weeks.

The hospital authorities said the iconic singer passed away at 8.12am. Arrangements are now being made to take her body to Shivaji Park where it will be kept for public homage.

Lata Mangeshkar was born in 1929 in Indore. Her father, Pandit Deenanath Mangeshkar, was a classical singer and theatre actor. Mangeshkar had recorded songs in over a thousand Hindi films. The Dadasaheb Phalke Award was conferred to her in 1989. In 2001, she was awarded the Bharat Ratna. France honoured her with its highest civilian award, the Officer of the Legion of Honour, in 2007.