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Ravi Shankar

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April 07, 1920 in Varanasi, India

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Biographies & Memoirs, Entertainment

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Ravi Shankar (Bengali: রবি শংকর; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury on 7 April 1920), often referred to by the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the best known contemporary Indian musician.

In 1956, he began to tour Europe and America playing Indian classical music and increased its popularity there in the 1960s through teaching, performance, and his association with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and George Harrison of The Beatles. Shankar engaged Western music by writing concerti for sitar and orchestra and toured the world in the 1970s and 1980s. From 1986 to 1992 he served as a nominated member of the upper chamber of the Parliament of India. Shankar was award...more

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Average rating: 4.11 · 38 ratings · 9 reviews · 8 distinct works

	Raga Mala by Ravi Shankar, George Harrison (Editor), Oliver Craske (contributor) 4.09 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions	My rating:
	My Music, My Life 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1968 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Ashtavakra Gita 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings	My rating:
	An Intimate Note To The Sincere Seeker 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge 1995-2000 by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Bill Hayden (Editor), Anne Elixhauser (Editor) 4.61 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Bapi: The Story of My Life by Ravi Shankar, Anoushka Shankar 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2002	My rating:
	Who Wants to Be an American Citizen? 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Sereburētingu Rabu: Ai O Iwau by Ravi Shankar, H.H.Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (原著), ペマ・ギャルポ (翻訳) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	The Words of Gandhi by Mahatma Gandhi (Selections), Richard Attenborough (Selected by), Johanna McGeary (Afterword) 4.36 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1990 — 6 editions	My rating:
	God Loves Fun 4.58 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	My rating: