The late Ravi Shankar’s career spanned nine decades, crossed all continents and uplifted countless minds and souls. April 7 ...
TV18, sitarist Rishab Rikhiram Sharma opens up about discovering music through a broken sitar and dedicating his life to ...
Alongside sarod and percussion, the sitarist and composer—daughter of virtuoso Ravi Shankar—closes out her suite of ...
The University of Georgia Performing Arts Center was filled with faculty, students and local listeners on Thursday night, eager to watch Anoushka Shankar’s 30-year mastery on the sitar.
CHENNAI: In the 1984 Mozart biopic Amadeus, the legendary composer asks his rival Antonio Salieri, “Do you believe in it?” As ...
CHENNAI: In the 1984 Mozart biopic Amadeus, the legendary composer asks his rival Antonio Salieri, “Do you believe in it?” As Salieri looks on, bewildered, Moza ...
She asked me, ‘Who is your guru?’ When I told her it was Pandit Ravi Shankar, who had just received the Bharat Ratna then, she said, ‘Oh, he is not a Bharat Ratna, he is a Vishwa Ratna!’ ...
His effortlessly beautiful bhajans and movie songs have soothed the senses of multiple generations. Indeed, there is ...
VARANASI: The stairs are crumbling to dust, the walls ravaged by the passage of time and just beyond flows the Ganga as if in ...
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Codes of elegance
My preoccupation with the hand started with seeing pictures of Auguste Rodin’s sculpture, The Hand. It spoke as no words can. And, following that, I have never failed to notice hands in art ...