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

Several notable leaders such as Chandra Shekhar Azad, B. R. Ambedkar, Shankar Dayal Sharma and Atal Bihari Vajpayee were born in what is now Madhya Pradesh.

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 is a Hindu and a vegetarian.

Norah Jones ( born Geethali Norah Jones Shankar ; March 30, 1979 ) is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress.

She is the daughter of Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar and Sue Jones.

She is also the paternal half-sister of Anoushka Shankar.

" Mount Makalu is respected as the deity Shankar ( Shiva ).

Mani Shankar ( Hindi: मण ि श ं कर ) is a Bollywood director, best known for his direction of Hindi films such as 16 December, Rudraksh, and, Tango Charlie Mukhbir and Knockout.

He is remembered for many hit Hindi films like 5 hits with Nanda including Jab Jab Phool Khile and other successful movies like Kanyadaan, Pyar Ka Mausam, Ek Shriman Ek Shrimati, Haseena Maan Jayegi, Sharmeelee, Aa Gale Lag Jaa, Fakira, Phaansi, Chor Machaye Shor, Mukti, Satyam Shivam Sundaram, Heeralal Pannalal, Junoon, Swayamvar and many such films, including 9 films he starred in with Pran like Chori Mera Kaam, Phaansi, Shankar Dada, Chakkar Pe Chakkar and with Rajesh Khanna in Prem Kahani and Alag Alag and with Amitabh Bachchan, such as Deewar, Namak Halaal.

Shankar teaches that spirituality is that which enhances human values such as love, compassion and enthusiasm.

The festival is remembered for the first major American appearances by Jimi Hendrix, The Who and Ravi Shankar, the first large scale public performance of Janis Joplin, and the introduction of Otis Redding to a large, predominantly white audience.

Aama ( Literally: Mother ) is the first Nepali movie produced in Nepal, starring Shiva Shankar Manandhar and Bhuvan Chand ( Thapa ) as the leading actors.

It is based on the theatrical traditions set by Uday Shankar during his stay in Almora ; these traditions were further enriched by Mohan Upreti and Brijendra Lal Sah.

As of September 2011, the Court of Appeal of Singapore had not yet expressed a view as to whether the position taken in Tang Kin Hwa or Shankar Alan is preferable.

She is best known for her commendable performance In Telugu films like Murari, Khadgam, Indra, Manmadhudu and Shankar Dada M. B. B. S ..

The theme of the title song " Kal Ho Naa Ho " is composed by Loy, and Shankar arranged the groove.

Shankar or Shamkar ( Sanskrit, " शम + कर, meaning Welfare + Bestower ") is a Sanskrit noun, and means " Beneficent " or " Giver of Bliss ".

Shankar is a common name in India.

Shankar is also the given name or family name of the following individuals:

She is the daughter of Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player, and Sukanya Rajan, a bank employee.

The name " Shankar " exists in the Sanskrit language and is not related to the colloquial Tamil word " Sankar " which means cyclone.

Gauri Sankar ( also Gauri Shankar or Gaurishankar ; Devanagari ग ौ र ी श ं कर ; Tibetan: Jomo Tseringma ;) is a mountain in the Himalayas, the second highest peak of the Rolwaling Himal, behind Melungtse ( 7, 181m ).

The name comes from Sanskrit for the Goddess ( Gauri ) and her Consort ( Shankar ), denoting the sacred regard to which is afforded it by the peoples of Tibet and Nepal.

Shankar was awarded honorary degrees from universities in India and the United States.

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 ).

In March 2010, Disney Channel aired a version of the story, Blog Wars, with Wizards of Waverly Place cast member Jennifer Stone as Harriet, Alexander Conti from Cheaper by the Dozen 2 as Harriet's friend Sport, and Degrassi: The Next Generations Melinda Shankar as Janie.

In addition to original Shakti member Zakir Hussain, this group has also featured eminent Indian musicians U. Srinivas, V. Selvaganesh, Shankar Mahadevan, Shivkumar Sharma, and Hariprasad Chaurasia.

On August 1, 1971 Ex-Beatles member George Harrison enlisted the aid of fellow musicians Ravi Shankar, Bob Dylan and many more in a concert at Madison Square Garden to raise money for Bangladesh famine relief.

* Ravi Shankar ( poet ), poet and faculty member of Central Connecticut State University

Its leading member was the English guitar player John McLaughlin, but it also featured the Indian violin player L. Shankar.

Ravi Shankar ( known then as Rabindra ) played the Dilruba in the 1930s, as a member of the dance group of his older brother Uday Shankar.

His father, Shankar Keshav Kanetkar, was a poet who wrote poetry under the pen name Kavi Girish and was a founding member of a circle of poets named Ravikiran Mandal.

Shankar befriended Richard Bock, founder of World Pacific Records, on his first American tour and recorded most of his albums in the 1950s and 1960s for Bock's label.

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

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

** Geethali Norah Jones Shankar ( Norah Jones, born 1979 ), American singer-songwriter

In 1988, Rory Nugent, an American birder, and Shankar Barua of Delhi, reported spotting the elusive bird on the banks of the Brahmaputra.

Alongside English and American pop and rock acts, the bill also featured black South African jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela as well as a performance by Ravi Shankar, who opened the climactic Sunday concert ( and whose presence at the festival was almost entirely due to the influence of George Harrison ).

Madurai celebrated city's first LGBTQ Rainbow festival on 29-07-2012, Anjali Gopalan inaugurated Alan Turing Rainbow festival and flag offed the Asia's first Genderqueer pride parade as a part of Turing Rainbow festival organized by Srishti Madurai a literary and resource circle for alternative gender and sexualities it was established by Gopi Shankar a student of The American College, Madurai to eradicate social discrimination faced by the LGBT community, this is the first parade in Asia to highlight 20 other kinds of genders apart from LGBT.

According to Dr. Shankar Bhattacharya, Dean at Assam University, as well as Aryanil Mukherjee, editor of Kaurab Literary Periodical, the movement influenced Allen Ginsberg as much as it influenced American poetry through the Beat poets who visited Calcutta, Patna and Benares during the 1960s decade.