NOUN
- Indian sitar player who popularized classical Indian music in the West (born in 1920)
How To Use Ravi Shankar In A Sentence
- Last week, the Financial Standards Authority fined a City high-flier Ravi Shankar Sinha for fraudulently obtaining £1.3m from clients of a private equity firm advised by the company of which he was UK chief executive, JC Flowers. The Redknapp affair: City limits | Editorial
- As Piazzolla was the master of the bandoneon (a relative of the accordion), Ravi Shankar is the master of the sitar.
- Pandit Ravi Shankar, apart from being one of India's finest musicians, also attracts much media attention.
- Take a trip to Mumbai and you’re the finger cymbalist for Ravi Shankar. The PlayBook
- Most people associate Indian classical music with the sitar, a cousin of the sarode popularized in the West by Ravi Shankar and made famous on '60s pop songs like the Beatles' "Norwegian Wood" and the Rolling Stones' "Paint It, Black. SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter
- Ravi Shankar is the man renowned for popularising Indian classical music and combining Eastern and Western musical styles through the sitar.
- A BBC presenter introduced pundit Ravi Shankar as the most famous living Indian on earth.
- Ravi Shankar Prasad is a senior leader of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, which spearheaded the campaign to build the temple at the site of the mosque. India Braces For Verdict In Charged Religious Property Dispute
- Shankar, 29 (half-sister of Grammy winner Norah Jones, and daughter of sitar superstar Ravi Shankar) is reportedly pregnant, and due in the spring. Rosamund Pike 'Devastated' By Ex Joe Wright's Marriage To Anoushka Shankar
- I like Glass a lot, though I guess I go for his "poppier" stuff, since I have albums of his collabortion with Ravi Shankar and the symphony he wrote from songs on the David Bowie-Brian Eno album Low. Appomattox
