NEW DELHI (AP) — 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 ...

Sitarist Shubhendra Rao, who studied under Shankar, looks to bring his guru's music to the masses again with an American tour.

Legendary sitarist Ravi Shankar and The Beatles had a meaningful relationship. Without Shankar’s influence, The Beatles might not have experimented with new sounds. George first heard Indian music in ...

In a moment that would prove life-changing, we take a look at the moment George Harrison discovered the work of sitarist Ravi ...

Ravi Shankar, the much-loved sitarist famous for bringing Indian music to the west, has died at 92 years old. Shankar died Tuesday at a hospital near his long-time home in Encinitas, California. Ravi ...

With an instrument perplexing to most Westerners, Ravi Shankar helped connect the world through music. The sitar virtuoso, who died Tuesday at 92, mentored a Beatle, became a hippie musical icon and ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — The walls of Sanjay Sharma’s music shop are lined with gleaming string instruments and old photographs of legendary musicians. Beatles George Harrison, John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

The back and forth over sitarist Rishabh Rikhiram Sharma's musical association with Pandit Ravi Shankar has intensified, with the Ravi Shankar Centre in New Delhi releasing an expansive clarification ...

Farhan Akhtar has been roped in to play India’s most revered Sitarist Bharat Ratna Pandit Ravi Shankar in Sam Mendes’ The Beatles – A Four Film Cinematic Event. The honour came to Farhan as a very ...

(AP) Ravi 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 a 10-decade ...

NEW YORK -- The kids didn't seem to know how to respond as Ravi Shankar began his four-hour set on the final afternoon of the Monterey Pop Festival in the fabled summer of 1967. As captured in D.A.