Farhan Akhtar has been cast as Ravi Shankar in Sam Mendes' Beatles films, but who exactly was this man? A concise history of the sitar maestro who mentored George Harrison.

The new documentary about George Harrison, which airs this week on HBO, is garnering praise from across the media landscape (“a significant and substantially new take on the band and its most elusive ...

That difference in attitude created an early tension. Shankar would later say of the first sitar-heavy Beatles track, “I was ...

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Indian Sun is a new authoritative biography of the Indian musician Ravi Shankar's life, published to coincide with this year's centenary of his birth. In a career that spanned decades and continents, ...

April 7 marks the centenary of the Indian Sitar Master Ravi Shankar (1920– 2012), whose interactions with Western musicians, such as the Beatle George Harrison, have been celebrated, although the full ...

NEW YORK, NY – Schirmer Theatrical, a division of Wise Music Group, has announced the formation of The Ravi Shankar Ensemble and its inaugural 12-city U.S. tour in 2026. This new concert production ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Ravi Shankar was an Indian classical artist of the highest rank who across ...

NEW DELHI (AP) -- Ravi Shankar, the sitar virtuoso who became a hippie musical icon of the 1960s after hobnobbing with the Beatles and who introduced traditional Indian ragas to Western audiences over ...