The Ravi Shankar Ensemble—a multi-generational collective of world-class musicians curated by Anoushka and Sukanya Shankar— ...

In 1968, the celebrated Indian musician Ravi Shankar performed for six days in Manhattan, bringing his virtuosity on the sitar to a New York audience. That year, this magazine’s reviewer wrote that ...

There was something fated about Shankar’s life: it’s a story that makes sense almost on a mythical level, with its ups and downs, triumphs and disappointments and above all the unfolding of a timely ...

“Indian music was the original ‘world music’ — appealing to a generation of educated, middle-class Western listeners,” said producer Joe Boyd, who has worked with everyone from Pink Floyd to Nazakat & ...