This appeal also defines the position of the anti-nautch movement ( Jogan Shankar, 1990 ).

They form a small group and go for joga, from house to house on every Tuesday and Friday ( Jogan Shankar, 1990 ).

* 1920 – Ravi Shankar, Indian musician and composer

* 1956 – Ravi Shankar, Indian spiritual leader, founded the Art of Living Foundation

* 1954 – Shankar Nag, Indian film actor and director

* December 24 – Ramsewak Shankar is ousted as President of Suriname by a military coup.

* April 7 – Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player

* From the Sitar to the Guitar – The 1995 concerts featuring Yehudi Menuhin and Ravi Shankar

** Rabbi Shankar ( a pun on Ravi Shankar ), an Indian guru – Dressed in a Nehru jacket dispensing pseudo-mystical Eastern wisdom laden with bad puns.

As with Harrison ’ s “ Bangla Desh ”, all profits from the recording would go to the newly established George Harrison – Ravi Shankar Special Emergency Relief Fund, to be distributed by UNICEF.

#* Traditional prayer – including a dedication by Ravi Shankar

#" Your Eyes " ( Ravi Shankar ) – 8: 22

#" Arpan " ( Ravi Shankar ) – 23: 01

* Anoushka Shankar – sitar

* June 21 – The Air India Boeing 707-437 Gouri Shankar, operating as Air India Flight 403, crashes while landing in a rainstorm at Sahar International Airport in Bombay, India, killing 17 of the 111 people on board.

* Raga Aberi ( 1995 ) – Shankar

* Concert for Peace ( 1993 ) – Ravi Shankar

* Song for Everyone ( 1985 ) – L. Shankar

* Who's to Know ( 1980 ) – L. Shankar

#" The Book of My Life " ( featuring Anoushka Shankar ) – 6: 15

** Gandhi – Ravi Shankar ; George Fenton

* President of India – R. Venkataraman until July 25, Shankar Dayal Sharma

* President of India – Shankar Dayal Sharma until July 25, K. R. Narayanan

* President of India – Shankar Dayal Sharma

* President of India – Shankar Dayal Sharma

* President of India – Shankar Dayal Sharma

Mani Shankar Aiyar, Second from left, Dorjee Khandu, the Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh, and Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister of India

SSCMS was founded in 2001 under the vision and guidance of His Holiness Ravi Shankar ( spiritual leader ), the founder of Art of Living Foundation, an educational non-governmental organization ( NGO ).

* Passages ( Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass album ), a 1990 album

* The Blast ( album ), an album by Yuvan Shankar Raja

Ravi Shankar (; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury on 7 April 1920 ), often referred to with the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar.

* Ravi Shankar ( born 1920 ), a sitar virtuoso

* Ravi Shankar ( spiritual leader ) ( born 1956 ), a spiritual leader and founder of the Art of Living Foundation

* Ravi Shankar ( born 1920 ), musician and composer best known for his work on the sitar.

** Tom Lazarus ( engineer ), Hans Wendl ( producer ) & Ravi Shankar for Full Circle: Carnegie Hall 2000

Subsequently, Blau was instrumental in hiring a number of professionals like Mel Powell ( dean of the School of Music ), Paul Brach ( dean of the School of Art ), Alexander Mackendrick ( dean of the School of Film / Video ), sociologist Maurice Stein ( dean of Critical Studies ), and Richard Farson ( dean of the School of Design ; now incorporated in the Art school ) as well other influential program heads and teachers such as Allan Kaprow, Bella Lewitzky, Michael Asher, Jules Engel, John Baldessari, Judy Chicago, James Hurtak, Ravi Shankar, Max Kozloff, Miriam Shapiro and Douglas Huebler, most of whom largely came from a counterculture and avant-garde side of the art world.

A list of past honorary degree recipients, include: Beverly Sills ( 1975 ), Roy Lichtenstein ( 1977 ), Twyla Tharp ( 1978 ), Gordon Davidson ( 1980 ) Haskell Wexler ( 1981 ) Mischa Schneider ( 1981 ), Bella Lewitzky ( 1981 ), Henry Mancini ( 1983 ), Jan de Gaetani ( 1983 ), Ravi Shankar ( 1985 ), John Cage ( 1986 ), Frank O. Gehry ( 1987 ), Trisha Brown ( 1988 ), Donn B. Tatum ( 1989 ), Luis Valdez ( 1989 ), Paul Taylor ( 1989 ), Ornette Coleman ( 1990 ), Beatrice Manley ( 1990 ), Lulu May Von Hagen ( 1990 ), Ustad Ali Akbar Khan ( 1991 ), Pearl Primus ( 1991 ), Adrian Piper ( 1992 ), Ray Bradbury ( 1992 ), Yvonne Rainer ( 1993 ), Steven Bochco ( 1993 ), Stan Brakhage ( 1994 ), Vija Celmins ( 1994 ), Betye Saar ( 1995 ), Carolyn Forche ( 1995 ), Laurie Anderson ( 1996 ), Elvin Jones ( 1996 ), Chantal Akerman ( 1997 ), Lee Breuer ( 1998 ), Ed Ruscha ( 1999 ), Bill Viola ( 2000 ), Steve Reich ( 2000 ), Ry Cooder ( 2001 ), Faith Hubley ( 2001 ), Bruce Nauman ( 2001 ), Alice Coltrane ( 2002 ), Roy E. Disney ( 2003 ), Anna Halprin ( 2003 ), Carolee Schneemann ( 2003 ), Christian Wolff ( 2004 ), Daniel Nagrin ( 2004 ), James Newton ( 2005 ), Harrison “ Buzz ” Price ( 2005 ), Julius Shulman ( 2005 ), Rudy VanderLans ( 2006 ), Rudy Perez ( 2006 ), Alonzo King ( 2007 ), Harry Belafonte ( 2008 ), Herbert Blau ( 2008 ), Terry Riley ( 2008 ), Elizabeth LeCompte ( 2009 ), Morton Subotnick ( 2009 ), William M. Lowman ( 2010 ), Trimpin ( 2010 ), Annette Bening ( 2011 ), Donald McKayle ( 2011 ), and Peter Sellars ( 2012 ).

* Mani Shankar Aiyar " Remembering Rajiv ", Rupa, New Delhi, 1992

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.

Shankar had performed as part of a cultural delegation in the Soviet Union in 1954 and Menuhin invited Shankar in 1955 to perform in New York City for a demonstration of Indian classical music, sponsored by the Ford Foundation.

In October 1970 Shankar became chair of the department of Indian music of the California Institute of the Arts after previously teaching at the City College of New York, the University of California, Los Angeles, and being guest lecturer at other colleges and universities, including the Ali Akbar College of Music.

Jones was born in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York, to Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar and American concert producer Sue Jones.

The Concert for Bangladesh ( or Bangla Desh, as the country name was spelled originally ) was the name for two benefit concerts organised by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar, held at noon and at 7 pm on Sunday, 1 August 1971, playing to a total of 40, 000 people at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

* New Sounds-guest musicians from David Byrne to Meredith Monk to Ravi Shankar, presents performances and premieres new works from the classic and operatic to folk and jazz

* Jai Bhawani Chowk, Jai Shankar Chowk and Subhash Nagar on New Mill Road.

Shankar also filmed in New Jersey and New York at the World Trade Center when co-producer Michael Salomon and his wife, Luciana Balusia visited the sets of Jeans.

In Iran, Hinduism is the fastest growing religion, spurred mainly by interest in New Age gurus like Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and Mahesh Yogi.

In April 2007, His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar visited New Orleans and met with Mayor Ray Nagin to establish new programs working toward a Stress Free, Violence Free New Orleans.

He performed in United States for the first time, in January 1933, along with his dance partner Simkie, a French dancer, in New York City ; as part of the visit, a reception was held at the Grand Central Art Galleries .. After, Shankar and his troupe set out on an 84-city tour throughout the country.

In December 1983, his younger brother, sitar player Ravi Shankar organized a four-day festival, Uday-Ustav Festival in New Delhi, marking the 60th anniversary his professional debut in 1923, highlighted by performances by his disciples, films, an exhibition and orchestral music composed and orchestrated by Ravi Shankar himself.

Prof. Antony Flew ( UK ), Tom Flynn ( USA ), Jim Herrick ( UK ), Christopher Hitchens ( USA ), Ellen Johnson ( USA ), Prof. Paul Kurtz ( USA ), Lavanam ( India ), Dr. Richard Leakey ( Kenya ), Iain Middleton ( New Zealand ), Dr. Henry Morgentaler ( Canada ), Dr. Taslima Nasreen ( Bangladesh ), Steinar Nilsen ( Norway ), Prof. Jean-Claude Pecker ( France ), James Randi ( USA ), Prof. Ajoy Roy ( Bangladesh ), Dr. Younus Shaikh ( Pakistan ), Dr. G N Jyoti Shankar ( deceased, USA ), Barbara Smoker ( UK ), Richard Stallman ( USA ), Prof.

The hall's unique oval-shaped stage has seen performances by Rachmaninoff, the Denishawn Dance Company, The Vienna Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, The Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Ravi Shankar, Anne Sofie von Otter, Audra McDonald, The Kremerata Baltica, The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Enrico Caruso, Joan Sutherland, Robert Frost, Jysse Norman, Van Cliburn, Yo-Yo Ma, Vladimir Horowitz, Helen Hayes, Cecelia Bartoli, Eugene Ormandy, Leonard Bernstein, Isaac Stern, Benny Goodman, Harry Chapin, Dave Brubeck, Jack DeJohnette, The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Louis Lortie, The Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis, Elton John, and The Grateful Dead, among others.

He twice performed the song live in front of TV cameras, however, during the final years of his life, beginning with his appearance with Ravi Shankar on VH1's Hard Rock Live, filmed in New York on 14 May 1997.

The album followed the two concerts of the same name, held on 1 August 1971 at New York's Madison Square Garden featuring Harrison, Bob Dylan, Ravi Shankar, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Billy Preston, Leon Russell and Badfinger.