
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....
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01:36 PM, Dec 14, 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