Reputed names in the domain of Indian classical music like Ravi Shankar, Vilayat Khan, Ali Akbar Khan and Ram Narayan have also composed music for films.

* Ravi Shankar becomes music director of All India Radio.

* December-Ali Akbar Khan accompanies Ravi Shankar on the sarod during the latter's debut performance at the annual music conference in Allahabad.

The concert opened with a traditional Sanskrit invocation, the Sarvesham chant, followed by Indian music when Anoushka Shankar, daughter of Ravi Shankar, played " Your Eyes ".

He also had a strong interest in what might now be termed world music, playing Brazilian-influenced jazz with Laurindo Almeida in 1953-54, and in 1962 fusing jazz with Indian traditions in collaboration with Indian composer and sitar-player Ravi Shankar.

Ancient texts give fundamental rules of Indian music but the modern writings of Omkarnath Thakur, S. N. Ratanjankar, Lalit Kishore Singh, Lalmani Misra, Acharya Brahaspati, Thakur Jaidev Singh, R. C. Mehta, Premlata Sharma, Subhadra Choudhary, Indrani Chakravarty, Ashok Ranade, Aban E. Mistry, and contemporary ones of Pushpa Basu, Prabha Atre, Ragini Trivedi, Ravi Sharma, Swatantra Sharma, Saubhagyavardhan Brahaspati, Suneera Kasliwal, and the like have given a rigorous basis to the Indian music system.

Shakeel also wrote a substantial chunk of his songs for music director Ravi Sharma.

One of the most popular and up and coming artist who is really making a name for himself in the chuntey / soca world is Ravi B. Ravi B has taken this genre of music to the next level.

With sitar legend Ravi Shankar and other leading figures of Indian classical music and literature, Singh voiced his concerns over politicisation of arts and culture in India and lack of support experienced by the practitioners of India's traditional art forms, particularly folk artists and musicians.

The poem was set to music in the 1950s by sitar maestro Ravi Shankar and recorded by singer Lata Mangeshkar.

Meanwhile, Hindustani classical music has become popular across the world through the influence of artists such as Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan.

Inspired by a trip to India and " the exotic, luxurious, and seemingly wonder-filled scenarios played out in Indian cinemas ," it was an experimental " electro-exotica " album fusing exotic Indian music ( reminiscent of Ravi Shankar and Bollywood music ) with electronic music, including an early " synth raga " song entitled " Hum Ghar Sajan " ( from a Guru Granth Sahib phrase ).

The renewed interest in Raja Ravi Varma has spilled into the area of popular culture as films and music videos have started using his images.

Among the best known examples of chutney music are Sundar Popo's " Pholourie Bein Chutney " or Sundar Popo's first recorded song " Nani And Nana ", Sonny Mann's " Lotalal ", Vedesh Sookoo's " Dhal Belly Indian ", Anand Yankaran's " Jo Jo ", Neeshan " D Hitman " Prabhoo's " Mr. Shankar ", Ravi B's " Rum Is Meh Lova " and Rikki Jai's " Mor Tor ".

The book was also adapted to a Broadway play by Harvey Breit and Patricia Rinehart, and was staged at Hudson Theatre in 1968 with Zia Mohyeddin playing the lead role and Ravi Shankar scoring the music.

A production of Guru Dutt, the film centers on a love triangle between Guru Dutt, Rehman and Waheeda Rehman, and features music by Ravi.

This trend was also found among music directors to an extent, with outside musicians like Naushad, Usha Khanna, Salil Chaudhary, Bombay Ravi and Ilaya Raja.

The national award winning music directors of Malayalam cinema are Johnson ( 1994, 1995 ) Bombay Ravi ( 1995 ) and Ouseppachan ( 2007 ).

* Ravi Venkatesan-independent director ; former executive Microsoft India, Cummins Inc.

" Mohanlal also acted in Kirtichakra by director Major Ravi, in which he plays the role of an Indian Army officer Major Mahadevan.

* Indian director Lenin Rajendran made a Malayalam movie named Makaramanju ( The Mist of Capricorn ) in 2010, which narrates Raja Ravi Varma's life at a certain stage in his life.

Indian director / cinematographer Santhosh Sivan played the lead role as Raja Ravi Varma.

* Mr. Ravi Bhoothalingam-Independent director

The present director of the institute is Ravi Grover.

' His younger brothers were Rajendra Shankar, Debendra Shankar, Bhupendra Shankar and Ravi Shankar, born in 1920, out of them Bhupendra died young in 1926

* 1920 – Ravi Shankar, Indian musician and composer

* 1970 – Ravi Vakil, Canadian-American mathematician

* 1968 – Ravi Teja, Tollywood film actor

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

* 1980 – Jayam Ravi, Indian actor

* April 7 – Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player

* May 27 – Ravi Shastri, Indian cricketer

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

* Raja Ravi Varma ( 1848 – 1906 ), also known as Ravi Varma, Indian painter

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

A number of kings such as Kodai Kerala Varma, Udaya Martanda Varma ( 1175 – 1195 ), Vira Rama Kerala Varma, Ravi Kerala Varma, Ravivarma Kulasekhara ( 1299 – 1314 ), Vira Marthanda Varma ruled over the kingdom.

# Ravi Varma 1678 – 1705

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

The Punjab – the region of the five rivers east of Indus: Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas, and Sutlej — consists of interfluvial doabs, or tracts of land lying between two confluent rivers.

* Concert for Peace ( 1993 ) – Ravi Shankar

In 1984 – 85, Indian batsman Ravi Shastri equalled the record by scoring six sixes in an over while playing for Bombay versus Baroda.

Johansen ( also known as Ravi )-organ, piano, trumpet, percussion, backing vocals ( 2002 – 2003 )

** Gandhi – Ravi Shankar ; George Fenton

England – Samit Patel, Ravi Bopara, Tim Bresnan, Alastair Cook, Steven Davies, Luke Wright and Liam Plunkett