Pandit Ravi Shankar (Bengali: রবি শংকর is honorific) (born April 7, 1920) is a Bengali Indian sitar player and composer. He is a disciple of Baba Allauddin Khan, the founder of the Maihar gharana of Hindustani classical music.
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"Activity and rest are two vital aspects of life. To find a balance in them is a skill in itself. Wisdom is knowing when to have rest, when to have activity, and how much of each to have. Finding them in each other - activity in rest and rest in activi ...
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“I was very happy to play music for this elite audience and prepared a special set of some of my own music and gorgeous, rarely-heard songs that my father Pandit Ravi Shankar contributed to legendary Indian film scores at the beginning of his career. ...
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Thirty "Coachella-type" rock bands on three stages over two days in late August at the Monterey County Fairgrounds, that's the enticing recipe for the inaugural First City Festival. The lineup for the Aug. 24 ...
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Appreciating two elder statesmen of cool, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Pete Seeger. Magic Trip, a new film by Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood, tells the story of novelist Ken Kesey's 1964 road trip across America in a painted bus with a troupe o ...
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So the Indian jamboree at the Cannes Film Festival has come to an end. For this year at least. Perhaps there might be a flutter in store for us on awards night on May 26 because Anurag Kashyap’s Ugly, in competition, ...
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After a few wet days, the weather in Cannes opened up to the rays of a bright sun and it wasn’t the only thing that shone on Sunday. Even as India was the star of the festival through its cinema and red carpet prese ...
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New Delhi, May 20 (IBNS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Rajnath Singh on Sunday a new 76-member team to navigate the party through the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. Singh appointed Bandaru Dattatreya as National Vice President of BJP. Gujarat chi ...
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NEW DELHI: Rajnath Singh on Sunday formally allocated work among BJP office-bearers, acknowledging Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi's growing clout in the party even as he tried to assert his autonomy as pres ...
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