Marian Foster spoke to Shankar in Ravi Shankar: Maestro and Guru, originally broadcast 10 June, 1985. Explore more and follow BBC Archive.

Ravi Shankar was born in Varanasi, India on April 7, 1920 and spent his youth performing across Europe and India as a member of his brother Uday's dance troupe. He gave up dancing in 1938 to study the ...

Ravi Shankar was an influential Indian musician ... His Symphony mixes Indian Hindustani sitar music with a western classical orchestra. Banghra is a fusion music that also has its roots in ...

In the 1940s, Shankar wrote ballet music, recorded for ... the second edited by Harrison. Ravi also mentored his daughter Anoushka, who emerged as a notable sitar player in her own right, and ...

Ravi Shankar, often referred to by the title Pandit, is an Indian classical musician and composer who plays the sitar. He was described as "the most famous Indian musician on the planet" by Ken ...

Bollywood’s curly-haired beauty Sanya Malhotra, who is known for her acting prowess has reportedly found love in sitarist ...

Rishab Rikhiram Sharma is a disciple of Pt Ravi Shankar. The sitarist performed at the U.S. President Joe Biden's Diwali ...

Anoushka, the daughter of the legendary sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar ... and contemporary elements into her compositions. Shankar's musical journey at the GRAMMYs began in 2002, when she ...

Hyderabad: Surmandal which has been in the service of music for the past fifty-five years is organising “Triveni-Music & Dance Festival Season 2 on 4th January, Saturday at 6 pm at ...