Ravi Shankar
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Ravi Shankar (IPA: [ˈrɔbi ˈʃɔŋkɔr]; 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012), born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, his name often preceded by the title Pandit, was an Indian musician and composer who was one of the best-known exponents of the sitar in the second half of the 20th century as a composer of Hindustani classical music.
Shankar was born to a Bengali family in Benares, British India, and spent his youth touring India and Europe with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar. He gave up dancing in 1938 to study sitar playing 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, from 1949 to 1956.
In 1956 he began to tour Europe and the Americas playing Indian classical music and increased its popularity there in the 1960s through teaching, performance, and his association with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Beatles guitarist George Harrison. His influence on the latter helped popularize the use of Indian instruments in pop music throughout the 1960s. Shankar engaged Western music by writing compositions for sitar and orchestra, and toured the world in the 1970s and 1980s. From 1986 to 1992, he served as a nominated member of Rajya Sabha, the upper chamber of the Parliament of India. He continued to perform up until the end of his life. In 1999, Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna.
Ravi Shankar (disambiguation)
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Ravi Shankar (cartoonist)
Ravi Shankar Etteth, professionally known by his full name, or as Ravi Shankar is an Indian author and cartoonist.
He was born in Palakkad, Kerala and is a nephew of the cartoonist and author O. V. Vijayan.
His first cartoon appeared in Link. He worked for Indian Express on a contract basis, and as the staff cartoonist of India Today. He became the deputy editor of India Today. He was also art director of the magazine, as well as the satellite television station owned by the magazine.
In 1996, Etteth published his first book of short stories The Scream of the Dragonflies. By 2002, Etteth claimed he had retired from political cartooning for all practical purposes, and chose to describe himself as a writer and art director.
He is now a columnist and the Executive Editor of The New Indian Express, based in New Delhi.
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K. Ravi Shankar
K. Ravi Shankar is an Indian film director best known for his Bollywood films of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
He has worked with many top Bollywood actors when their respective careers were in their infancy such as Govinda in Dariya Dil in 1988 and Shilpa Shetty in Aag in 1994.
Shankar has also produced several films including Swarag Se Sunder in 1986 and Gharana in 1989.
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Ravi Shankar (spiritual leader)
Ravi Shankar, commonly known as Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, was born on 13 May 1956 in Tamil Nadu, India. He is also frequently referred to simply as "Sri Sri" (honorific) or as Guruji or Gurudev. He is a spiritual leader and founder of the Art of Living Foundation created in 1981, which aims to relieve individual stress, societal problems, and violence. In 1997, he established a Geneva-based charity, the International Association for Human Values, an NGO that engages in relief work and rural development and aims to foster shared global values. For his service, he has received some of the highest awards of several countries including India, Peru, Colombia, Paraguay, etc. In January 2016, he was awarded the "Padma Vibhushan" by the Government of India.
Life
Ravi Shankar was born in Papanasam, Tamil Nadu to Visalakshi Ratnam and R. S. Venkat Ratnam. He was named "Ravi" (a common Indian name meaning "sun") because his birth was on a Sunday, and "Shankar" after the eighth-century Hindu saint, Adi Shankara, because it was also Shankara's birthday. Ravi Shankar's first teacher was Sudhakar Chaturvedi, an Indian Vedic Scholar and a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Bangalore University (St. Joseph's College). After graduation, Shankar travelled with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi giving talks and arranging conferences on Vedic science, and setting up meditation and Ayurveda centres.
Ravi Shankar (poet)
Ravi Shankar (born 1975) is an Indian American poet, translator, convicted criminal and former literature professor at Central Connecticut State University and City University of Hong Kong. He is the founding editor and Executive Director of the international online journal of the arts, Drunken Boat, one of the world's oldest online journals of the arts (founded in 1999).
He has published and edited a total of ten books of poetry, including 'Deepening Groove' for which he won the 2010 National Poetry Review Prize and a collection of translations of Andal, the 8th century Tamil poet/saint, published by Zubaan Books in India in 2015 and distributed by University of Chicago Press in the US Market. He has won a Pushcart Prize, been nominated for a Poets' Prize and served as a judge for numerous poetry related competitions..
He has also appeared on NPR, the BBC, the Jim Lehrer News Hour and in the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chronicle of Higher Education and the Financial Times. He has been called "one of America's finest younger poets" by Connecticut poet laureate Dick Allen. He also co-edited W.W. Norton's "Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from Asia, the Middle East & Beyond" called "a beautiful achievement for world literature" by Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer. He is featured on the Poetry Foundation, and the Academy of American Poets website where you can find and read poems of his.
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Ravi Shankar
ALBUMS
- The Ravi Shankar Collection released: 2012
- The Living Room Sessions Part 1 released: 2012
- Ravi Shankar Symphony released: 2012
- Sitar Virtuoso released: 2011
- The Master released: 2010
- Collaborations released: 2010
- The Very Best of Ravi Shankar released: 2010
- Festival from India released: 2009
- Best Of Ravi Shankar released: 2008
- Sitar Soul released: 2007
- A Life in Music released: 2007
- The Collection released: 2006
- Transmigration Macabre released: 2006
- The Essential Ravi Shankar released: 2005
- Sitar Concertos & Other Works released: 2005
- Homage To Mahatma Gandhi released: 2004
- The Rough Guide to Ravi Shankar released: 2004
- Ravi Shankar 70 released: 2003
- Genesis released: 2003
- Sangeet Sartaj released: 2002
- East & West, Yin & Yang released: 2002
- Master of Sitar released: 2001
- The Ravi Shankar Collection: In San Francisco released: 2001
- The Ravi Shankar Collection: A Morning Raga / An Evening Raga released: 2001
- A Morning Raga, An Evening Raga released: 2001
- Full Circle - Carnegie Hall 2000 released: 2001
- Bridges released: 2001
- The Raga Collection: From Dusk Till Dawn released: 2000
- Legends - Sitar & Film Music released: 1999
- The Doyen of Hindustani Music released: 1999
- In London released: 1999
- The Ravi Shankar Collection - Improvisations released: 1999
- West Meets East: The Historic Shankar/Menuhin Sessions released: 1999
- Chants of India released: 1997
- In Celebration released: 1996
- Concert for Peace: Royal Albert Hall, London released: 1995
- From India released: 1995
- In Venice released: 1994
- Sound of the Sitar released: 1993
- Menuhin meets Shankar released: 1993
- Maestro's Choice: Series One released: 1991
- Portrait of Genius released: 1991
- Golden Jubilee Concert - Volume 2 released: 1990
- Golden Jubilee Concert - Volume 1 released: 1990
- Concerto for Sitar & Orchestra released: 1990
- Passages released: 1990
- Inside the Kremlin released: 1989
- The Sounds of India released: 1989
- Spirit Of India released: 1988
- Tana Mana released: 1987
- Pandit Ravi Shankar released: 1986
- Gandhi released: 1982
- Raga-Mala (Sitar Concerto No. 2) released: 1982
- Homage To Mahatma Gandhi & Baba Allauddin released: 1981
- Shankar Family & Friends released: 1974
- Ragas released: 1973
- Four Raga Moods released: 1971
- Ravi Shankar at The Woodstock Festival released: 1970
- Ravi Shankar In Concert released: 1968
- Charly released: 1968
- The Genius of Ravi Shankar released: 1968
- In San Francisco released: 1967
- In New York released: 1967
- Live at the Monterey International Pop Festival released: 1967
- Chappaqua released: 1966
- Shree / Sindhu Bhairavi released: 1965
- India's Master Musician released: 1963
- Three Ragas released: 1956
- Ravi Shankar released:
- Traditional Ragas released:
- The Golden Collection released:
- The Ravi Shankar released:
- Monument of Strings released:
- Concert for Peace released:
- Ragas & Talas released:
- The Teacher - Key Works released:
- Vision of Peace released:
- Inde du Nord released:
- The Greatest Hits Of released:
- The Master Musicians of India released:
- The Spirit of Freedom Concerts - Concert Two released:
- The Spirit of Freedom Concerts - Concert One released:
- Sound of the Sitar released:
- The Unparalleled Pt. Ravi Shankar released:
- The Ravi Shankar Collection * India's Master Musician released:
- The Spirit of India released:
- In Celebration Highlights released:
- Raga (Original Soundtrack) released:
- Raga Jogeshwari released:
- Ustad Alla Rakha released:
- In Concert 1972 released:
- Ravi Shankar Presents The Master Drummers of India released:
- Ragas Varanasi released:
- Raga Tala released:
East & West, Yin & Yang
Released 2002- Raga Private Instruction
- David Frost Show
- All Things Must Pass
- 'I like a lot of music'
- Ride Rajbun
- Yin & Yang
- All Things Must Pass
- Bangladesh
- Prabhujee
- Anoushka
- 40 Years
- Here Comes The Sun
- Homeward Bound
- Mo
- Abandoned Love
- Rockline Radio Medley
- Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea
- Don't Try To Own Me
- Here Comes Emerson
- Your True Love
- All Things Must Pass
Legends - Sitar & Film Music
Released 1999- Jane Kaise Spnon Mein
- Kaise Din Beete
- Sun Mere Lal
- Sanware Sanware
- O Bedardi Kyon Tadpaye
- Janam Liyo Lalna
- Hiya Jarat Rahat Din Rain
- Pipra Ke Patwa Sarikhe Dole Manva
- Raaga Ahir Lalit
- Raaga Nat Bhairav
- Raaga Bhatiyar
- Raaga Yamani Bilawal
- Raaga Hemant
- Raaga Marwa
- Raaga Puriya Kalyan
- Raaga Bangla Kirtan
- Raga Sindhu Bhairavi
Shankar Family & Friends
Released 1974- I Am Missing You
- Kahan Gayelava Shyam Saloné
- Supané Mé Ayé Preetam Sainya
- I am Missing You (reprise)
- Jaya Jagadish Haré
- Dream, Nightmare & Dawn: Overture
- Part One - Dream: Festivity & Joy
- Part One - Dream: Love - Dance Ecstasy
- Part Two - Nightmare: Lust (Raga Chandrakauns)
- Part Two - Nightmare: Dispute & Violence
- Part Two - Nightmare: Disillusionment & Frustration
- Part Two - Nightmare: Despair & Sorrow (Raga Marwa)
- Part Three - Dawn: Awakening
- Part Three - Dawn: Peace & Hope (Raga Bhatiyar)
Born: 1920-04-07
Died: 2012-12-11
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