* 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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Aitbaar was remade that same year in Tamil as Chaavi with Sathyaraj, Saritha, and Nizhalgal Ravi.

" 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.

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.

In 1998 he was awarded the Polar Music Prize together with Ravi Shankar in Stockholm, Sweden.

Before the reorganization, Punjab was a riparian state as far as the rivers Yamuna, Beas and Ravi were concerned.

However, in 1976, when Ravi was made shareable, Haryana was given a share in it, while Punjab received no share of the Yamuna waters.

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.

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.

CITIL was carved out of COSL in early 1990s and Rajesh was appointed head of CITIL after Ravi Apte, then CEO of COSL and CITIL, relocated to Hong Kong.

Desai was a young lawyer in Ahmedabad when he decided to join Gandhi along with Narhari Parikh, Mohanlal Pandya and Ravi Shankar Vyas, and became his most devoted secretary for 25 years, from 1917 to 1942.

Ravi Shankar, colloquially known as Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, was born Ravi Shankar Ratnam on 13 May 1956.

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He was named " Ravi " ( a common Indian name meaning " sun ") because his birth was on a Sunday and " Shankar " after the 8th century Hindu saint Adi Shankara, with whom he shares the birthday.

After graduation, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar traveled with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and was invited by Maharishi to give talks on Vedic science, arrange conferences on the Vedas and science, and set up Ayurveda centers.

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.