* 1920 – Ravi Shankar, Indian musician and composer

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.

These artists ' collaboration with Indian musicians such as Ravi Shankar and Zakir Hussain have led to the development of raga rock.

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 ).

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

* Ravi Shankar, musician, survived

** Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Indian guru

* April 7 – Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player

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

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

The show later took a different turn, featuring Ravi Shankar as a guest and having Krusty howl a drugged-out version of The Doors ' " Break on Through ( To the Other Side )" in 1973.

Used widely throughout the Indian subcontinent, the sitar became known in the western world through the work of Ravi Shankar beginning in the late 1950s and early 1960s after The Kinks ' top 10 single " See My Friends " featured a low tuned drone guitar which was widely mistaken to be the instrument.

A sitar can have 21, 22, or 23 strings, among them six or seven played strings which run over the frets: the Gandhaar-pancham sitar ( used by Vilayat Khan and his disciples ) has six playable strings, whereas the Kharaj-pancham sitar, used in the Maihar gharana, to which Ravi Shankar belongs, and other gharanas such as Bishnupur, has seven.

The two popular styles are the " gayaki style " sitars ( sometimes called " Vilayat Khan style sitars ") and the full decorated " instrumental style " sitars ( sometimes called " Ravi Shankar style sitars ").

Close-up of the red & white engraved celluloid decoration on a toon wood " Ravi Shankar Style " Sitar

In one or more of the more common tunings ( used by Ravi Shankar, among others, called " Kharaj Pancham " sitar ) the playable strings are strung in this fashion:

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.

Shankar shortened the Sanskrit version of his first name, Ravindra, to Ravi, for " sun ".

George Harrison, U. S. President Gerald Ford, and Ravi Shankar in the Oval Office in December 1974

The American jazz saxophonist John Coltrane named his son Ravi Coltrane after Shankar.

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Eric Burdon and The Animals later that same year in their hit " Monterey " quoted a line from The Byrds song " Renaissance Fair " (" I think that maybe I'm dreamin '") and mentioned performers The Byrds, Jefferson Airplane, Ravi Shankar, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Hugh Masekela, The Grateful Dead, and The Rolling Stones ' Brian Jones (" His Majesty Prince Jones smiled as he moved among the crowd ").

The later poets like Keshavsuta, Balakavi, Govindagraj, and the poets of Ravi Kiran Mandal like Madhav Julian wrote poetry which was influenced by the Romantic and Victorian English poetry.

Since 1995, he has been presenting live cricket from all around the world for ESPN STAR Sports and was part of the ' Few Good Men ' commentary team that included Ravi Shastri, Sunil Gavaskar, and Alan Wilkins along with Geoff Boycott and Navjot Singh Sidhu, for few seasons, and later, Ian Chappell and Sanjay Manjrekar.

He was influenced by Ravi Shankar and later worked extensively with Indo-Trinidadian sitarist Mungal Patasar.

Khanna lived in Saraswati Niwas in Thakurdwar near Girgaon, Mumbai ( then called Bombay ) and attended St. Sebastian ’ s Goan High School there, along with his friend Ravi Kapoor, who later took the stage name Jeetendra, and whose mothers were friends.

The owner of Penguin India Mr Ravi Singh is reported to have seen the double of Ruskin Bond at Writer's Meeting Point in Savoy Hotel of Mussoorie while the author himself was having his afternoon nap.

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.

More importantly, " Norwegian Wood " sparked a major craze for the classical music of India in general and for the work of Ravi Shankar in particular, with the direct result that recordings by Shankar and other Indian classical musicians began to sell in large quantities outside India for the first time and Shankar himself quickly became one of the world's most sought-after concert performers.

While chasing Malik Kafur, Ravi Varma's armies reached up to Kancheepuram, where he crowned himself as the King of all the South India.

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.

Sometimes, Kandan Amuthan is identified as Sthanu Ravi Varman himself.

But, some historians say that it was given by king Sthanu Ravi Varman himself, to Isodatta Virai.

Bhaskara Ravi Varman I ( 962-1019 CE ), the next ruler has immortalised himself in Kerala history with his Jewish Copper Plate grant of 1000 CE.

Sangramadheeran, or Kulasekhara Ravi Varma, crowned himself " Tribhuvanachakravarthi "- ruler of Chera, Chola and Pandya kingdoms in 1312 at Kanchipuram.

With Michael Vaughan retired and Ian Bell dropped, Shah had the opportunity to claim the number three position for himself, however a weak series saw him dropped in favour of Ravi Bopara.

* Martin, Walter R. The Kingdom of the Cults, edited by Ravi Zacharias, Bethany, Bloomington, 2003

Galaxy of Musicians by Raja Ravi Varma depicts Indian women dressed in regional attire playing a variety of musical instruments popular in different parts of the country.

By the first the State of Lahore ( i. e. West Punjab ) handed over to the British, as equivalent for one crore indemnity, the hill countries between the rivers Beas and Indus ; by the second the British made over to Gulab Singh for 75 lakhs all the hilly or mountainous country situated to the east of the Indus and the west of the Ravi i. e. the Vale of Kashmir ).

Painting of Goddess Saraswati by Raja Ravi Varma

* Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools First Edition ( 1986, the " Red Dragon Book "), by Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi and Jeffrey D. Ullman

* Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools Second Edition ( 2006, the " Purple Dragon Book "), by Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, Jeffrey D. Ullman and Monica S. Lam

It is fed by the Jhelum, the Chenab, the Ravi, the Beas, and the Sutlej rivers, among others.

Economists such as Milton Friedman and Dr. Ravi Batra have theorized ways that a modern economy could have low inflation and near full employment ( as in close to 100 % of those who are not students and are healthy enough to work, and who wish to work at any given point in time ), as of yet these have yet to be widely disseminated through the press or introduced by most governments.

* The New Partnership for Africa ’ s Development ( NEPAD ): An Initial Commentary by Ravi Kanbur, Cornell University

The Cabinet has nine Conservative members and is presided over by Cllr Ravi Govindia.

Seshanarayana by Raja Ravi Varma.

* The Ravi Lancers, novel by John Masters

Painting by Raja Ravi Varma

Painting by Raja Ravi Varma

Radha with Krishna, as painted by Raja Ravi Varma

Arjuna and Subhadra. Painting by Raja Ravi Varma.

" In 1986 Aho and Ullman were joined by Ravi Sethi to create a new edition, " the red dragon book " ( which was briefly shown in the 1995 movie " Hackers "), and in 2007 also by Monica Lam to create " the purple dragon book.

* Kurukshetra, a 2008 Malayalam film based on Kargil War, directed by Major Ravi.

1947 showing the doaba s formed by Ravi River with other rivers of the Indus River system.

A meta-analysis of 46 studies of telecommuting involving 12, 833 employees by Ravi Gajendran and David A. Harrison in the Journal of Applied Psychology, published by the American Psychological Association ( APA ), finds that telecommuting has largely positive consequences for employees and employers.

Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers used " The Trembler ", a track written by Eddy and Ravi Shankar.