Sitar Maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar

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  Sitar Maestro Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan Dies At 88

  Renowned sitar player Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan, - the last survivor of the 'Sitar Trinity' of India along with the late Pandit Ravi Shankar and Ustad Vilayat Khan - died in Mumbai today after a brief illness, a family member said. He was 88.

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  Sitar Maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar's Rare Recordings Release In India

  "This was his dream, to have a way to bring his rare and never-before released material to India," said his wife

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  London music festival to pay tribute to Pandit Ravi Shankar

  One of Britain's leading Hindustani and Carnatic music festivals will honour the memory of legendary sitar maestro Ravi Shankar this year.

• Pandit Ravi Shankar's last session recordings to be released in May

  The last recordings of the world renowned sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar would be released in May this year.

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  Father's Grammy bitter-sweet moment for us: Anoushka Shankar

  Sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar's double win at the 55th Grammy awards this year, will remain a bitter-sweet memory for his musician daughters Anoushka Shankar and Norah Jones.

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  Norah Jones to sing nominated song at Oscars

  Norah Jones, the daughter of late sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar, will perform Everybody Needs a Best Friend from Ted at the Oscars in February.

• Punjab Assembly's winter session begins

  The five-day winter session of Punjab Assembly began on Monday with members paying tribute to late former Prime Minister I K Gujral, Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray, Sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar, filmmaker Yash Chopra and others.

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  Pandit Ravi Shankar was always young at heart: Gulzar

  Gulzar, who worked with Pandit Ravi Shankar for 1979 movie Meera, remembers the late sitar maestro as an honest person who was young at heart.

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  When Raakhee took sitar lessons from Ravi Shankar

  Actress Raakhee Gulzar spent weeks learning how to play the sitar from the maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar himself.

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  Keith Vaz mourns Pandit Ravi Shankar

  Indian-origin British MP Keith Vaz has mourned the demise of Pandit Ravi Shankar, saying the death of the sitar maestro has left a void in the world of classical music.

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  Amitabh Bachchan on Pt Ravi Shankar's only phone call to him

  Megastar Amitabh Bachchan said he was puzzled to receive a call from sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar for the first time a week before the music legend's demise.

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  Pandit Ravi Shankar was an artistic genius: German Ambassador Michael Steiner

  Condoling the death of sitar maestro Ravi Shankar, German Ambassador Michael Steiner today said the sitar icon had influenced generations of musicians and music fans around the globe.

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  Guns N' Roses dedicate Gurgaon concert to Pandit Ravi Shankar

  American rock band Guns N' Roses dedicated their concert in Gurgaon on December 12, 2012 to sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar, who died in the US at the age of 92.

• 'If you like our tuning so much, I hope you will enjoy the playing more'

  With an instrument perplexing to most Westerners, Ravi Shankar helped connect the world through music. The sitar virtuoso hobnobbed with the Beatles, became a hippie musical icon and spearheaded the first rock benefit concert as he introduced traditional Indian ragas to Western audiences over nearly a century.

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  Maharashtra mourns Ravi Shankar's death

  Maharashtra Governor K. Sankaranarayanan and Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Wednesday condoled the death of renowned sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar, who died in a US hospital.