• ●Dr Bhupen Hazarika (8 September 1926 – 2011), born at Sadiya, Assam; singer, lyricist, composer, filmmaker and writer, known as 'Bhupen Da' and the 'Bard of the Brahmaputra'.
• ●Dadasaheb Phalke Award, 1992 — India's highest cinema honour, instituted in 1969 with Devika Rani as the first recipient; he was the first Assamese to receive it.
• ●Padma Bhushan (1977), Padma Vibhushan (posthumously, 2012) and Bharat Ratna (posthumously, 2019, along with Pranab Mukherjee and Nanaji Deshmukh).
• ●Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (1987) — the national honour in the performing arts, given by the Sangeet Natak Akademi, an autonomous body of the Ministry of Culture set up on 31 May 1952 and inaugurated in January 1953; the award carries a cash prize of ₹1,00,000.
• ●His birth centenary celebrations began in Guwahati in 2025.
• ●Borgeet — devotional songs composed by Srimanta Sankardeva and Madhavdeva, a core form of Assamese Vaishnavite music; Bihu — the Assamese festival and its associated folk song-and-dance form, both idioms Hazarika drew on.

Bhupen Hazarika, whose birth centenary fell in 2026, was awarded the Bharat Ratna in which year?