Oscar-winning composer A.R. Rahman, Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin and Chandrayaan project director M. Annadurai were on Saturday (August 1) conferred with honorary doctorates by Anna University in Chennai.
Governor and university chancellor Surjit Singh Barnala gave away the honourary degrees at a special convocation.
The degrees were conferred on Rahman and Annadurai for their achievements in the realm of music and space technology respectively and on Stalin for his contribution to the state's administration, Anna University Vice Chancellor P. Mannar Jawahar said.
This is the third doctorate for Rahman after he won two Oscars for Hollywood movie"Slumdog Millionaire". The first was from Aligarh Muslim University and the second from London's Middlesex University.
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