Condemning police action against young protesters, BJP today attacked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi for remaining silent on the gang-rape of the paramedic student. The party also demanded that both Singh and Gandhi should assure the country on the safety of women. ...
04:48 PM, Dec 22, 2012
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
New Delhi: As Narendra Modi headed for a hat-trick in Gujarat, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday parried questions on whether he will be the party's prime ministerial candidate in the next Lok Sabha elections. "Modi bhai has always been an important leader in the BJP...We are not a dynastic party which is led by a Yuvaraj. We function in a pure democratic fashion," BJP chief spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad...
11:43 AM, Dec 20, 2012
New Delhi: Slamming the Delhi government as well as the Centre for failing to bring down the crime graph in the national capital, Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday raised the issue of the brutal gang-rape of a girl in the national capital in Parliament. There was chaos in the Upper House with Opposition members demanding a statement from the Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on the horrific incident. Noisy scenes...
11:49 AM, Dec 18, 2012
Bhopal: BJP national spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday ruled out the possibility of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar becoming NDA's Prime Ministerial candidate for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. "There is no doubt that NDA's Prime Ministerial nominee will come from the BJP, which is its major constituent," Prasad said. Prasad said the question of whether Narendra Modi would be the PM candidate would be discussed at an "appropriate...
01:16 AM, Dec 16, 2012
Mumbai: Writer-lyricist Gulzar, who worked with Pandit Ravi Shankar for 1979 movie 'Meera', remembers the late sitar maestro as an honest person who was young at heart. "When I offered 'Meera' to him, he said he will listen to the script when he was in India next and then decide. But I offered to fly down to New York for a day. I went to New York and he agreed....
04:48 PM, Dec 15, 2012
New Delhi: Pakistan's Interior Minister, who is in country for a three day visit, will call on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday, his second day of the trip, but will not hold a meeting with United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi. There has been no agenda set for the meeting with prime minister officially, but reports suggest that the two leaders may talk on the Sir Creek issue, apart...
09:35 AM, Dec 15, 2012
Mumbai: Actress Raakhee Gulzar spent weeks learning how to play the sitar from the maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar himself. It was for her role of the unfulfilled housewife in Aparna Sen's 'Paroma'. Recalling the glorious time she had strumming those magical strings under the guidance of the late master sitarist, Raakhee said: "There were scenes in 'Paroma' where my character was shown to be playing the sitar. Neither Aparna nor...
02:36 PM, Dec 14, 2012
Indian classical musician and Pandit Ravi Shankar's disciple Pandit Barun Kumar Pal joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the impact of Pandit Ravi Shankar on Indian classical music. Q. When did you last speak to him? And if not very personal, could you share some of the things you talked about? Asked by: Kunjram A. It was last Tuesday, he was eager to know about the health situation of...
01:36 PM, Dec 14, 2012
Did Pandit Ravi Shankar show the way as to how the classical arts can be kept alive in the contemporary world? ...
11:59 PM, Dec 13, 2012
New Delhi: Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who is grieving the demise of Pandit Ravi Shankar, says he was puzzled to receive the sitar maestro's call for the first time a week before the music legend's demise. He never knew it would be his last. "A strange feeling crawls within me. Just last week his wife Sukanyaji had sent a message to me on my mobile, while I transited from Marrakech, Morocco...
06:13 PM, Dec 13, 2012
Pandit Ravi Shankar died yesterday - well, technically, he died on December 11 at 4.30pm PST (Pacific Standard Time or West Coast time,) in San ...
11:40 AM, Dec 13, 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
The music world loses a gem, sitar legend Pandit Ravi Shankar passes away, the prime minister leads the tributes, says an era has ended. ...
11:30 PM, Dec 12, 2012
Expressing his condolences over the death of Pandit Ravi Shankar, renowned Kathak dancer Birju Maharaj said that he had no words to express what he was feeling. "To say that I feel sad will be an understatement," said Birju Maharaj. "He is an immortal personality, he took sitar to great heights on the global platform. He took great pleasure in his music. When he played you could see every note ...
07:32 PM, Dec 12, 2012
Shankar's next grand-scale project, 'I', has been in the making for quite some time now. The film features Vikram and Amy Jackson in the lead and the team just completed a 45-day long schedule in China. Now Amy has confirmed that she has re-joined the team in Chennai, where a second schedule has been planned. "Now onto work mode in Chennai for 'I', AR Rahman is scoring the music" tweeted...
06:32 PM, Dec 12, 2012
With the audio of his upcoming venture 'Alex Pandian' hitting the stores today, Karthi Sivakumar says Devi Sri Prasad's songs in the movie will be well received. "Understanding fully well the pulse of today's audience, DSP has come out with great music. Besides racy songs, there are a couple of melodies too," says Karthi. Stating that director Suraj has good music knowledge, Karthi adds that the combo of DSP and...
06:02 PM, Dec 12, 2012
Prominent dancer Shovana Narayan looks back at the impact of Pandit Ravi Shankar on popularising Indian culture abroad in an interaction with IBNLive readers. Q. Is there a possibility of the Panditji's performance being declared as a national treasure so that entire nation enjoys it and commercial exploitation of his work is prevented? Asked by: sundar1950in A. Panditji's work is by itself not only National treasure but also international treasure....
05:10 PM, Dec 12, 2012
