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.

Some of the most talented classical musicians of the sub-continent come from Bangladesh including Ustad Allauddin Khan, Sangeetacharya Tarapada Chakraborty, Pandit Ravi Shankar, Pandit Manas Chakraborty, Ustad Ayet Ali Khan, Ustad Abed Hossain Khan and so on.

He was earlier addressed as " Pandit Ravi Shankar " ( or " Punditji ") but in the early 1990s changed his name to " Sri Sri Ravi Shankar " after the renowned sitarist Ravi Shankar objected that the guru was using the name he had made famous.

Some of the most talented classical musicians of the sub-continent come from Bangladesh including Ustad Allauddin Khan, Sangeetacharya Tarapada Chakraborty, Pandit Ravi Shankar, Pandit Manas Chakraborty, Ustad Ayet Ali Khan, Ustad Abed Hossain Khan and so on.

He interviewed many Asian stars, including Pandit Ravi Shankar and Usha Uthup.

He is popularly known as Pandit Ravi Kichlu.

Pannalal Ghosh jointly scoring the background for “ Aandhiyan ” in 1952 along with Ustad Ali Akbar Khan and Pandit Ravi Shankar.

Examples include Pandit Ravi Shankar and Pandit Bhimsen Joshi.

Grammy-winning jazz singer, Norah Jones, is the daughter of sitarist Pandit Ravi Shankar of international fame, ( US-born Sue Jones being her mother ).

In the Indian innings he took 5 / 103, his first five wicket haul in Test cricket, as his dismissed Sunil Gavaskar ( caught and bowled ), Krishnamachari Srikkanth, Ravi Shastri, Chandrakant Pandit and Kapil Dev as India were bowled out for 397.

Esteemed writers in this field were Professor Girija Shankar Ray, Pandit Vinayaka Misra, Professor Gauri Kumara Brahma, Jagabandhu Simha and Harekrushna Mahatab.

In the 19th century, Fakir Mohan Senapati ( 1843 – 1918 ), Gouri Shankar Ray, Gopal Chandra Praharaj, Pandit Nilmani Vidyaratna, Kabibar Radhanath Ray were prominent figure in prose and poetry writinga of Oriya Literature.

* Pandit Motilal Nehru, a great patriot, with D. C. Goswami, R. K. Nayak, Shankar Dayal Singh.

The mountainous region of Kashmir was where Rahul's musical lineage evolved and in September 2000, Real World Records released Music Of The Himalayas, a live performance in Turin featuring Sharma, percussionist Pandit Bhawani Shankar, and tabla player Ustad Shafat Ahmed Khan.

In addition to a longstanding collaboration with drummer Mark Nauseef, Mr. Tadić has performed and recorded with Terry Riley, The Los Angeles Opera with Plácido Domingo, Howard Levy, Joachim Kühn, Dusan Bogdanovic, Vlatko Stefanovski, Theodosii Spassov, Kudsi Erguner, Djivan Gasparyan, Pandit Swapan Chaudhuri, L. Shankar, Markus Stockhausen, Maria João, David Torn, Jack Bruce and The Grande Mothers Reinvented, among others.

Pandit Raghunath Prasanna developed various techniques in the realm of flute playing so as to faithfully reproduce the subtleties and nuances of Indian classical music.

* 1948 – Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi known for his non-violent freedom struggle is assassinated by Pandit Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist.

* 1954 – Sulakshana Pandit, Indian actress and singer

His father, Motilal Nehru ( 1861-1931 ), a wealthy barrister who belonged to the Kashmiri Pandit community, served twice as President of the Indian National Congress during the Independence Struggle.

Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | Lord Mountbatten swears in Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru as the first Prime Minister of free India at the ceremony held at 8: 30 am Indian Standard Time | IST on 15 August 1947

* In India, Children's Day is celebrated on November 14, the birthdate of first Indian Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.

* December 19 – 3 Indian Revolutionaries viz Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil, Thakur Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan were executed by the British Empire 4th Rajendra Nath Lahiri had been executed two day's before i. e. on December 17

** Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian Revolutionary, Hindustan Republican Association ( b. 1897

* date unknown – Narayana Pandit, Indian mathematician ( b. 1340 )

These statements of the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir as well as Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru also have a bearing on the territorial extent of Kanjut as well as the rest of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir at the time of her accession “ in its entirety to the new Dominion of India ” on October 26 and Section ( 4 ) of the Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir which pertains to the territorial extent of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir also unequivocally states that, “ The territory of the State shall comprise all the territories which on the fifteenth day of August, 1947, were under the sovereignty or suzerainty of the Ruler of the State ".

When the motion was put to the vote, the " No-changers " won by 1748 to 890 votes resulting in the resignation of important Congress leaders including Pandit Motilal Nehru and C. R. Das, the President of the Indian National Congress.

Following the suicide of his friend Arshile Gorky in 1948 and a failed romantic relationship with Nayantara Pandit, the niece of Indian nationalist Jawaharlal Nehru, Noguchi applied for a Bollingen Fellowship to travel the world, proposing to study public space as research for a book about the " environment of leisure.

* Pandit or pundit in India, a scholar or expert, especially of traditional Indian law, philosophy, or music

" You have put life in the soul of ‘ Mirza Ghalib ’", were the remarks of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Indian Prime Minister.

Throughout this time, and as a consequence of a natural talent that was spotted by his father, Singh learned music in Sikh temples and from musicians such as Pandit Chaganlal Sharma and Ustad Jamaal Khan, both of whom were trained in classical Indian music.

Although Sukuna was an indigenous Fijian, his father enrolled him at the Wairuku Indian School in Ra, founded in 1898 by Pandit Badri Maharaj, who later served from 1917 to 1929 as the first Indo-Fijian member of Fiji's Legislative Council ( the forerunner to the present Parliament.

She was awarded the prestigious " SaMaPa Vitasta Award 2006 " in Delhi by SaMaPa-" Sopori Academy of Music And Performing Arts " by Music Legend Pandit Bhajan Sopori for her lifetime contribution and service to Indian culture and Dance.

Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia ( born 1 July 1938 ) is an Indian classical instrumentalist.

Pandit Raghunath Prasanna developed various techniques in the realm of flute playing so as to faithfully reproduce the subtleties and nuances of the Indian classical music.

During his time as a delegate for the United Nations, Cooper had met Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and established a cordial working relationship with the Indian delegation, including Nehru's sister Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit.

Pandit Bhimsen Gururaj Joshi (); February 4, 1922 – January 24, 2011 ) was an Indian vocalist in the Hindustani classical tradition.

He studied with William Russo and Easley Blackwood, with North Indian vocalist Pandit Pran Nath for 25 years, and collaborated with Nubian master musician Hamza El Din.

On 15 January 1941 Gandhi had stated: " Some say Pandit Nehru and I were estranged.

See the sacrifice of the ninth Sikh Guru, Guru Tegh Bahadar who on the final desperate and heart-rending pleas of the Kashmiri Pandit, agreed to put up a fight for their right to practise their religion in which he was executed so another religion besides his own could have the freedom to practice there religion against the tyrant moghul empire who were forcing people to accept Islam.

The finals of the 1991 season will be remembered for the number of international cricketers who were part of the match with Kapil Dev, Chetan Sharma, Ajay Jadeja and Vijay Yadav turning up for Haryana and Bombay cricket team represented by Sanjay Manjrekar, Vinod Kambli, Sachin Tendulkar, Dilip Vengsarkar, Chandrakant Pandit, Salil Ankola and Abey Kuruvilla.

From there, the Marathas raided the Mughal territory and many forts were captured by Maratha commanders Santaji Ghorpade, Dhanaji Jadhav, Parshuram Pant Pratinidhi, Shankaraji Narayan Sacheev, and Melgiri Pandit.

In the 18th century, some well-known works like Yatharthadeepika ( by Vaman Pandit ), Naladamayanti Swayamvara ( by Raghunath Pandit ), Pandava Pratap, Harivijay, Ramvijay ( by Shridhar Pandit ) and Mahabharata ( by Moropant ) were produced.

With Rammohun's departure for England in 1830, the affairs of Brahmo Sabha were effectively managed by Trustees Dwarkanath Tagore and Pandit Ram Chandra Vidyabagish, with Dwarkanath instructing his diwan to manage affairs.

The lyrics were written by Muhammad Jameel Didi in 1948, and the melody was composed by Sri Lankan maestro Pandit Wannakuwattawaduge Don Amaradeva in 1972.

In 1946, during Jamia ’ s silver jubilee celebration, one could see the crisis that India had to face in the following year: Mr. Mohammad Ali Jinnah, and Liaquat Ali Khan were on one side of Dr. Zakir Husain, the vice chancellor, on the dias ; Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Asaf Ali and Sir Rajagopalachari were on the other side.

In the 18th century, several well-known works like Yatharthadeepika ( by Vaman Pandit ), Naladamayanti Swayamvara ( by Raghunath Pandit ), Pandava Pratap, Harivijay, Ramvijay ( by Shridhar Pandit ) and Mahabharata ( translation by Moropant ) were produced.

Among the distinguished leaders who attended the opening session were Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Shankaraaro Deo, Jagjivan Ram, BG Kher, OP Mehtab, Aruna Asaf Ali, Ram Manohar Lohia etc.

Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya and Master Tara Singh were among the members of the Managing Committee.

Moreover, at present, the names of Kashmiri Pandits are drawn from the same sources as by the Hindus of northern India, but some of the names of Kashmiri Pandits recorded in earlier literary works show that names drawn from Persian sources were also current among them ( e. g. Aftab Pandit, Balkak Dar, etc .).

Due to the joint efforts of Mangal Lakhamshi Bhanushali, corporator of Mumbai and trustee of Krishnavarma Foundation, Mandavi, Shri Kirit Somaiya, Member of Parliament, Mulund, Mumbai, Hemantkumar Padhya, researcher and founder / president of Hindu Swatantryavir Smruti Sansthanam, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, Vinod Khanna, MP, Bollywood actor and Minister of External Affairs for the Government of India, Narendra Modi, chief minister of Gujarat State and many others, finally succeeded in returning the urns of Pandit Shyamaji and his wife Bhanumati, which were officially handed over to the Chief Minister of Gujarat State on August 22, 2003, by the Ville de Genève and the Swiss government 55 years after Indian Independence.