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 ...

Sitarist Shubhendra Rao, who studied under Shankar, looks to bring his guru's music to the masses again with an American tour.

As conversations around artist exploitation, opaque royalty systems, and creative burnout grow louder across India’s music industry, Shankar Mahadevan is stepping into the debate with a ...

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 ...

It’s a journey with an Icon when we celebrate the 105th Birthday of Indian sitar master, Ravi Shankar. His music spanned from classical Indian ragas to films to world fusion. We’ll hear an interview ...

The "raga" is the melodic form, but it is not just a scale, Shankar says. There are roughly 72 parent scales. And each scale has hundreds of ragas, which can be pentatonic (five notes), hexatonic (six ...

The title of Oliver Craske's fascinating and exhaustively researched biography of Ravi Shankar, one of the greatest artists of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, is something of a ...

Curated by the maestro's widow Sukanya and his daughter Anoushka, the Ravi Shankar Ensemble is a multi-generational collective of world-class musicians dedicated to the masterful compositions and ...

Renowned music composer Shankar Ganesh has been admitted to SIMS Hospital in Vadapalani, Chennai, due to sudden shortness of breath. Doctors are keeping him in the ICU and providing him with intensive ...

Indian Sun is a new authoritative biography of the Indian musician Ravi Shankar's life, published to coincide with this year's centenary of his birth. In a career that spanned decades and continents, ...