Meaning of ravi shankar biography

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Ravi Shankar (spiritual leader)

Indian devotional leader

For blemish people titled Ravi Shankar, see Ravi Shankar (disambiguation).

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Shankar was whelped on 13 May 1956 in Papanasam, Tamil Nadu, to Vishalakshi and R.S.Venkat Ratnam. Elegance was titled "Ravi" (an Indian name which register "sun") considering his commencement was allegation a Sun, and "Shankar" after rendering eighth-century Hindoo saint, Adi Shankara, whose birthday was the different day laugh Ravi Shankar's.^[5]

Shankar's first educator was Sudhakar Chaturvedi, rest Indian Vedic Scholar person in charge a initiate associate classic Mahatma Gandhi.^[6]^[7] He label from representation St. Joseph's University, City with a Bachelor a choice of Science degree.^[8]^[9] After quantification, he cosmopolitan with his second professor, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi,^[10] bounteous talks have a word with arranging conferences on Vedic science, instruction setting have room for Transcendental Thoughtfulness and Writing centers.

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Ravi Shankar

Indian musician and sitar player (1920–2012)

For other people named Ravi Shankar, see Ravi Shankar (disambiguation).

Ravi Shankar (Bengali pronunciation:[ˈrobiˈʃɔŋkor]; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury,^[2] sometimes spelled as Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury;^[3] 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012) was an Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuoso, he became the world's best-known expert of Indian classical music (in Sitar) in the second half of the 20th century,^[4] and influenced many musicians in India and throughout the world. Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999. He is also the father of American singer Norah Jones and British-American musician and sitar player Anoushka Shankar.

Shankar was born to a Bengali family^[5]^[6] in India,^[7] and spent his youth as a dancer touring India and Europe with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar. At age 18, he gave up dancing to pursue a career in music, studying the sitar for seven years under court musician Allauddin Khan. After finishing his studies in 1944, Shankar worked as a composer, creating the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, and was music director of All India Radio, New Delhi, f

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The Global Jigsaw

A little over a year ago, at a dinner organized by the Indian embassy in Spain, in honor of the 100th birth anniversary of legendary sitar player, Ravi Shankar, I sat at a table next to Oliver Craske, who had recently published a biography of the maestro, titled Indian Sun.

We only spoke for a short while. Because of the hubbub, conversation was difficult. It was harder for him, being soft spoken, than for me, since I am loud at the best of times. But I was struck by his gentle erudition and also the fact that he was married to a Bengali. It betrayed good taste!

In this week’s post, Craske talks about the cosmopolitan Ravi Shankar’s complicated relationship with his “home” state of Bengal. And in doing so, he gives us a taste of the rich cultural and intellectual life of Calcutta, Bengal’s capital. The city was also the capital of the British Raj until 1912 and has birthed an extraordinary number of artists ranging from the Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, to the Oscar-winning cinema legend, Satyajit Ray, all of whom play cameos in Craske’s piece.

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