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.

Ravi Shankar took Indian classical music to world stages and introduced the sitar to Western audiences. His influence can still be felt today, 100... The Enduring Afterglow Of Ravi Shankar's Life In ...

The Town Hall will present the Ravi Shankar Ensemble, curated by Sukanya and Anoushka Shankar, featuring a blend of live ...

Global sitarist Anoushka Shankar has recently wrapped the Chapters Tour 2026 in India, marking 30 remarkable years of celebrating music. Just mere days after her last performance in Kolkata, she ...

When he was just 10 years old, Shankar began performing in Europe and the US with his family's Indian dance troupe. But at age 18, Shankar gave up... Ravi Shankar, Who Brought Eastern Music To Western ...

In an interview with the International Times in 1967, Harrison explained how Shankar was not only a music teacher but a spiritual teacher to him as well. For Harrison, music and spirituality were very ...

Anoushka Shankar had an unusually sound reason for missing some school days during the fall semester of her 10th grade year in 1996 at San Dieguito Academy in Encinitas. She was on tour and making her ...

That difference in attitude created an early tension. Shankar would later say of the first sitar-heavy Beatles track, “I was ...

With this monumental pan-India tour, NDTV Good Times continues its journey to unite the country through culture and music ...