Today on Google's home page is another special Doodle, Google logo, for the 96th birthday of Pandit Ravi Shankar. The Doodle shows a Sitar, a plucked stringed instrument used mainly in Hindustani ...

As you probably heard by now, the great sitar player Ravi Shankar died yesterday at the age of 92. His music arrived in most American ears thanks to George Harrison and the Beatles, whose interest ...

Google is paying tribute today to Indian-born Pandit Ravi Shankar on what would have been the musician’s 96th birthday, replacing its usual logo with a doodle depicting Shankar’s sitar. The doodle ...

The saying “There is no perfection, only beautiful version of brokenness” fits seamlessley in the life of the virtuoso Pandit Ravi Shankar. The maestro had shards of unforgettable moments lived to the ...

Ravi Shankar.-AFP (file) Photo. ISLAMABAD: On Friday night, audience at Kuch Khaas enjoyed the music of three sitar maestros paying tribute to Pandit Ravi Shankar, one of the greatest masters of the ...

In the second volume in a series of free-flowing, ambient-tinged mini-albums, the composer—daughter of the late sitar virtuoso Pandit Ravi Shankar—seeks out a new vocabulary for her instrument. Save ...

The daughter of sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar has spent years exploring the instrument’s possibilities. Recording in Berlin with Arooj Aftab and Nils Frahm, she zeroes in on the nexus of music and ...