Pandit Ravi Shankar's musician daughters, Norah Jones and Anoushka Shankar, wife Sukanya were among many who turned out to pay tribute to the late sitar maestro at his memorial service in Delhi on Sunday evening. ...
05:55 PM, Mar 12, 2013
One Billion Rising is an online campaign spearheaded by change.org. This Valentine's Day, make a pledge and show your support for crime against women by taking part in marches happening all over the country and the world or by simply dancing! ...
04:52 PM, Feb 14, 2013
Anoushka Shankar, daughter of legendary sitarist Ravi Shankar, on Wednesday said she was a victim of sexual abuse as a child, at the hands of a man her parents trusted implicitly. ...
12:25 PM, Feb 14, 2013
This Valentine's day millions of people across the world will be part of a global campaign 'One Billion Rising' to fight crimes against women. Many celebrities too have joined this campaign and leading the charge is Anoushka Shankar with a personal story of abuse. ...
08:50 AM, Feb 14, 2013
Anoushka Shankar, daughter of legendary sitarist Ravi Shankar, on Wednesday said she was a victim of sexual abuse as a child, at the hands of a man her parents trusted implicitly. ...
11:59 PM, Feb 13, 2013
The sitar virtuoso, ambassador of Indian music and friend of The Beatles, who died in December at 92, won best world music album for 'The Living Room Sessions Part 1.' ...
09:59 AM, Feb 11, 2013
Apart from being honoured with the Lifetime Achievement award, Late Pandit Ravi Shankar was awarded his fourth Grammy award for The Living Room Sessions Part 1. ...
08:59 AM, Feb 11, 2013
The honour was bestowed on the legendary sitarist, who passed away on December 11, 2012 at the age of 92. ...
02:59 PM, Feb 10, 2013
Encinitas, California: Ravi Shankar's daughters, Norah Jones and Anoushka Shankar, along with the wife of late Beatle George Harrison said their final goodbyes to the sitar virtuoso on Thursday at a public memorial service in Encinitas, California. The legendary musician and composer, who helped introduce the sitar to the Western world through his collaboration with The Beatles, died on December 11 in Southern California. He was 92. About 700 people...
10:50 AM, Dec 21, 2012
Washington: Legendary sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar would receive the lifetime achievement Grammy award, organisers of the top music award announced on Thursday. Shankar would receive the award posthumous on February 10 at the 55th Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, said the Recording Academy, which gives the prestigious Grammy Awards. The sitar maestro, who popularised Indian classical music in the West and had a major influence on The Beatles'...
09:57 AM, Dec 13, 2012
New Delhi: With the death of Pandit Ravi Shankar, passes an era of Hindustani classical music - an era which saw the Indian musical artform going global in the true sense of the word. Ravi Shankar, born as Robindro Shounkor Chowdhury to a Bengali Brahmin family in Varanasi in 1920, was the last of the surviving ambassadors of that movement. Ravi Shankar's exposure to the world of Indian culture was...
12:29 PM, Dec 12, 2012
New Delhi: Sitar maestro and composer Pandit Ravi Shankar, one of India's most loved and best known musicians, died in the US Tuesday. He was 92. He had been admitted to the Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, San Diego last Thursday after he complained of breathing difficulties. He breathed his last at 4.30 p.m. Pacific Time Tuesday. He is survived by his wife Sukanya Rajan and daughters Anoushka and...
11:16 AM, Dec 12, 2012
New Delhi: Noted musician Ravi Shankar enthralled the audience with his great piece of works for more than six decades. The three-time grammy award winner, who began his career as a music composer for Satyajit Ray's 'Apu Trilogy', went onto compose some of the best classical renditions of all times. His association with George Harrison of The Beatles band made the composer known to the western world. He later went...
10:20 AM, Dec 12, 2012
New Delhi: Legendary sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar died on Wednesday morning IST in San Diego in the United States at the age of 92 years. Pandit Ravi Shankar was in the US with his family for a surgery. Pandit Ravi Shankar's wife Sukanya and daughter Anoushka have issued a statement saying, "His health has been fragile for the past several years and on Thursday he underwent a surgery that...
09:32 AM, Dec 12, 2012
Mumbai: Legendary sitarist Ravi Shankar and his daughter Anoushka will be competing against each other at the 55th Grammy Awards, with both being nominated in the same category of Best World Music Album. Shankar, 92, who has been ailing for sometime and currently in the US for surgery, has been nominated for his album 'The Living Room Sessions Part-1'. The album includes four tracks with Indian classical raagas like Malgunji,...
10:26 AM, Dec 07, 2012
Anoushka Shankar talks about recording her latest album 'The Traveller' while expecting her first child Zubin. ...
12:40 PM, Jan 11, 2012
Celebs shed clothes for animal rights and to promote vegetarianism. ...
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