What comes to our minds first when we think about Pandit Ravi Shankar is how he successfully introduced the West to the ragas of the East. And in the words of Ravi Shankar himself, his performance at ...

Farhan Akhtar has been cast as Ravi Shankar in Sam Mendes' Beatles films, but who exactly was this man? A concise history of the sitar maestro who mentored George Harrison.

The announcement that Farhan Akhtar will play Ravi Shankar comes with an image most people already recognise: Shankar on stage at The Concert for Bangladesh, quietly changing the rules of what popular ...

NEW DELHI (AP) -- With an instrument perplexing to most Westerners, Ravi Shankar helped connect the world through music. The sitar virtuoso hobnobbed with the Beatles, became a hippie musical icon and ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — The walls of Sanjay Sharma’s music shop are lined with gleaming string instruments and old photographs of legendary musicians. Beatles George Harrison, John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

The Ravi Shankar Institute for Music and Performing Arts refutes claims by sitar player Rishab Rikhiram Sharma of being Pandit Ravi Shankar's last and youngest disciple. Anoushka Shankar clarified ...