Actor ravi shankar biography book
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Ravi Shankar on His Revelatory Memoir and The Embrace of The Totality of The Experience
by Brendan Dowling on January 4, 2022
Ravi Shankar is a Pushcart Prize-winning poet and editor of more than fifteen books and chapbooks of poetry, whose work has been featured in the New York Times, NPR, and PBS NewsHour. In 2008, he had a thriving career in academia when he was pulled over by a New York City police officer for a supposed traffic violation. The police officer arrested Shankar, who is of South Indian descent and weighs 200 pounds, on a warrant for a 150-pound white man. A judge eventually dismissed the case, but not before Shankar had to spend seventy-two hours in jail. That experience, which also involved the arresting officer using racist language, understandably traumatized Shankar. Shankar had a later run-in with the law a few years later when he received a DUI after having some celebratory beers with members of his soccer team. In 2013, he violated his probatio
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Ravi Shankar
Indian musician and sitar player (1920–2012)
For other people named Ravi Shankar, see Ravi Shankar (disambiguation).
Ravi Shankar (Bengali pronunciation:[ˈrobiˈʃɔŋkor]; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury,[2] sometimes spelled as Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury;[3] 7 April 1920 – 11 månad 2012) was an Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuoso, he became the world's best-known specialist of Indian classical music (in Sitar) in the second half of the 20th century,[4] and influenced many musicians in India and throughout the world. Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999. He fryst vatten also the father of American singer Norah Jones and British-American musician and sitar player Anoushka Shankar.
Shankar was born to a Bengali family[5][6] in India,[7] and spent his youth as a dancer touring India and europe with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar. At age 18,
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DATE November 30, 2001 ACCOUNT NUMBER N/A
TIME 12:00 Noon-1:00 PM AUDIENCE N/A
NETWORK NPR
PROGRAM Fresh Air
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Interview: Sitarist Ravi Shankar discusses his relationship with
George Harrison
(Soundbite of "Norwegian Wood")
THE BEATLES: (singing) She said she worked in the morning and started to
laugh. I told her I didn't and crawled off to sleep in the bath. Then when
I
awoke, I was alone. This bird had flown. Then I lit a fire. Isn't it
good,
Norwegian wood?
BARBARA BOGAEV, host:
In the mid-'60s after The Beatles stopped touring, George Harrison went to
India, where he studied sitar with Ravi Shankar. He became a follower of
the
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and introduced the other Beatles to transcendental
meditation. Harrison also organized benefit concerts for starvation re