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| File photo: Pandit Ravi Shankar plays his sitar in Los Angeles.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 an eight-decade career, died, Dec. 12, 2012. He was 92. AP
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| File photo: Pandit Ravi Shankar’s break during TV broadcast in Delhi 1954. Shankar was born as Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury in Varanasi on 7 April 1920. In the mid 1930’s he was able to learn French, discover many art forms related to the Western culture.
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| File photo: Pandit Ravi Shankar sits in front if a portrait of court musician Guru Baba Allauddin who taught him to play sitar.
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| File photo: Pandit Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan accompanied by Kishen Maharaj and Ashutosh Bhattacharya in a concert at Varanasi in the mid sixties.Shankar’s first public performance was on December 1939 and his debut performance was a jugalbandi with Ali Akbar Khan
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| Former president APJ Abdul Kalam and Pandit Ravi Shankar greets each other at Dilli Haat. PTI
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| File photo: George Harrison, of the Beatles, left, sits cross-legged with his musical mentor, Ravi Shankar of India, in Los Angeles, as Harrison explains to newsmen that Shankar is teaching him to play the sitar. 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 an eight-decade career, died, Dec. 11, 2012. AP
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| Classical musician Ravi Shankar and his daughter Anoushka Shankar play sittars as they perform at a function to pay tribute to Beatle George Harrison on the anniversary of his birthday in New Delhi. Shankar was a leading performer and composer of sitar music and was celebrated for popularising classical Indian music around the world, working with many Western artists including George Harrison from the Beatles. AFP
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| Sitar maestro and composer Pandit Ravi Shankar with his daughter and musician Anoushka Shankar at a press conference. Both the father and daughter was nominated for the the Best World Music Album at the 2013 Grammy Awards for separate albums. PTI
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| Sitar legend, composer, teacher and writer, Ravi Shankar, receives the University of Melbourne’s highest honour, the degree of Doctor of Laws, from the university’s Chancellor and Chairman of the Australia India Institute, the Honourable Alex Chernov (R) at a special conferring ceremony in Melbourne. Other recipients of this eminent degree include the Dalai Lama, Aung San Suu Kyi, Mary Robinson and Germaine Greer. AFP
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| File photo: Pandit Ravi Shankar along with his family meets Dalai Lama.
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| File photo: Pandit Ravi Shankar working on a film soundtrack. He became internationally acclaimed after he composed the music for the famous three Bengali movies titled Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray
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| File photo: Pandit Ravi Shankar receives a memento from former president late K R Narayanan.
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| Sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar with Legendary Vocalist Pandit Bhimsen Joshi. Shankar was a three time Grammy award winner and has been made the Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Elizabeth II. PTI
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| File photo: Pandit Ravi Shankar and his family with Beatles lead guitarist George Harrison and his wife Olivia Harrison.
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| File photo: Pandit Ravi Shankar meets former US president Gerald Ford, his son Jack, George Harrison, Tom Scott and Billy Preston at the White House.
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| File photo: Pandit Ravi Shankar arranges a composition feeaturing tabla and drums for jazz legend Buddy Rich.
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| File photo: Pandit Ravi Shankar with Princess of Greece Irene, Beatles lead guitarist George and Olivia Harrison and Sukanya Shankar.
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| Sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar, 92, performs his last concert in Bangalore. AP
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| Renowned Sitar maestro, Pandit Ravi shankar greets the audience prior to the "Premaanjali Festival 2012" a musical concert held at the Palace Grounds in Bangalore. Pandit Ravi shankar performed with his daughter Anoushka Shankar in what is said to be his last concert in the city of Bangalore. AFP
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