Ustad Ali Akbar Khan

Pandit Ravi Shankar's students will keep his legacy alive: Pandit Barun Kumar Pal 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 my wife, how am I doing & how the senior & young students are doing in Ravi Shankar centre in Delhi....more    
01:36 PM, Dec 14, 2012

FTN: Are the classical arts in danger of being lost in India?

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

Pt Ravi Shankar's music was as vivacious as his personal life 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