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 ).

She was born Madhuri Shankar Dixit to Shankar and Snehlata Dixit, of a Marathi family.

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.

Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent his youth touring Europe and India with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar.

After finishing his studies in 1944, Shankar worked as a composer, creating the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, and was music director of All India Radio, New Delhi, from 1949 to 1956.

Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honor, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999, and received three Grammy Awards.

Shankar was born 7 April 1920 in Varanasi to a Bengali Brahmin family as the youngest of seven brothers.

There he married a second time while Devi raised Shankar in Varanasi, and did not meet his son until he was eight years old.

Shankar was sporadically trained by Khan on tour, and Khan offered Shankar training to become a serious musician under the condition that he abandon touring and come to Maihar.

Khan was a rigorous teacher and Shankar had training on sitar and surbahar, learned ragas and the musical styles dhrupad, dhamar, and khyal, and was taught the techniques of the instruments rudra veena, rubab, and sursingar.

Shankar began to perform publicly on sitar in December 1939 and his debut performance was a jugalbandi ( duet ) with Ali Akbar Khan, who played the string instrument sarod.

Tabla player Alla Rakha, who was a frequent accompanist of Shankar, in 1988

During the visit, a documentary film about Shankar named Raga was shot by Howard Worth, and released in 1971.

In late 1970, the London Symphony Orchestra invited Shankar to compose a concerto with sitar ; Concerto for Sitar and Orchestra was performed with André Previn as conductor and Shankar playing the sitar.

Shankar was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Music Score for his work on the 1982 movie Gandhi, but lost to John Williams ' E. T.

In June 2008, Shankar played what was billed as his last European concert, but his 2011 tour includes dates in the United Kingdom.

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

In 2001, Shankar was made an Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Elizabeth II for his " services to music ".

Shankar married Allauddin Khan's daughter Annapurna Devi in 1941 and a son, Shubhendra Shankar, was born in 1942.

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

* Prithipal Singh and Shankar Lakshman ( hockey players ) are awarded the Padma Shri.

Chiranjeevi's new decade started with a super hit Annayya, but his next releases After a brief gap, Chiranjeevi starred in Indra released in 2002 which broke all his previous box office records of Tollywood and won him his third Nandi Award for Best Actor and sixth Filmfare Award. After that, he appeared in films which had an underlying message and a social cause like Tagore, Shankar Dada MBBS for which he won his seventh and latest Filmfare Award and Stalin. He was awarded with a Legendary Honorary Award by Filmfare for his contributions to the film industry.

Prior to Jeans, Shankar had directed three films, Gentleman, Kadhalan and Indian, all three of which had been successful ventures at the box-office.

Established by three devotees ; Dr Padmanabn Shrindhar Prabhu, Dr Anand and Mr Prem Shankar, who bought an old house in Auburn NSW and paid $ 12000. 00 to convert it into a temple.

Ehsaan Noorani composed three songs, while Shankar Mahadevan and Loy Mendonsa composed two songs each.

In 2009, the ACS ( BR ) water polo ' B ' Division ( Also Known as Barker Titans ) was the first school in Singapore to have won the School Nationals consecutively for three years in a row ( 2007, 2008, 2009 ). In 2007, ACS ( BR ) edged out its brother School ACS ( I ) 7-5 in the waterpolo final with 2 superb shots from Rahul Shankar Pandey in extra time.

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 ).

Shankar Pillai was honoured with the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award by Government of India in 1976.

In the 1990s, Shankar initiated a number of humanitarian projects, which continue to this date under the auspices of the Art of Living Foundation and its numerous national organizations.

V. K. Narayana Menon, director of AIR Delhi, introduced the Western violinist Yehudi Menuhin to Shankar during Menuhin's first visit to India in 1952.

Harrison met Shankar in London in 1966 and visited India for six weeks to study sitar under Shankar in Srinagar.

During the 1970s, Shankar and Harrison worked together again, recording Shankar Family & Friends in 1973 and touring North America the following year to a mixed response after Shankar had toured Europe with the Harrison-sponsored Music Festival from India.

K. R. Narayanan was elected as the Vice President of India on 21 August 1992, under the Presidency of Shankar Dayal Sharma.

* Ravi Shankar becomes music director of All India Radio.

* June 21 – The Air India Boeing 707-437 Gouri Shankar, operating as Air India Flight 403, crashes while landing in a rainstorm at Sahar International Airport in Bombay, India, killing 17 of the 111 people on board.

India has produced many critically acclaimed cinema-makers like K. Vishwanath, Bapu, Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Guru Dutt, K. Vishwanath, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Shaji N. Karun, Girish Kasaravalli, Shekhar Kapoor, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Shankar Nag, Girish Karnad, G. V. Iyer et al.

In 2010 Shankar was named by Forbes Magazine as the fifth most influential person in India.

According to Indian historian Tryambak Shankar Shejwalkar, Shivaji was inspired by the Vijayanagara Empire, a bulwark against the Muslim invasion of South India.

* President of India – R. Venkataraman until July 25, Shankar Dayal Sharma

* President of India – Shankar Dayal Sharma until July 25, K. R. Narayanan

* President of India – Shankar Dayal Sharma

* President of India – Shankar Dayal Sharma

* President of India – Shankar Dayal Sharma

* President of India – Shankar Dayal Sharma