The 9th ABP Ananda Shera Bangali 2013 Awards felicitated 11 Bengali achievers from different walks of life on Thursday evening. (From left) Pritam (music), Swastika Mukherjee, co-host for the evening at ITC Sonar along with ABP Ananda’s Suman De, Sujoy Ghosh (direction), Dr Samir Chaudhuri (public life), Paresh Maity (art), Aveek Sarkar, the chief editor of the ABP Group, Sunanda Banerjee (Sherar Sera), Sohini Sengupta (acting), Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (literature), Rudraprasad Sengupta (lifetime achievement), Chhanda Gayen (Shera Avishkar), Dr Anita Sengupta (science) and Joydeep Karmakar (sports). The evening began with Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty reciting a “prayer” and the curtains came down with a performance by Shillong Chamber Choir. Picture by Pabitra Das