Annapurna Devi could have been famous around the world — possibly on par with her first husband, Ravi Shankar. Instead, she stayed at home for more than six decades, before dying on Oct. 13 at ...

Dissonant artistic visions drove Annapurna Devi and her husband Ravi Shankar apart, notes Swapan Kumar Bondyopadhyay. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com March 30, 1955.

Annapurna gave another performance at the Suburban Music Circle, Santa Cruz, Bombay, after 1956, after leaving Calcutta and the Ali Akbar College of Music to live with Ravi Shankar and give the ...

Annapurna Devi, doyenne of Hindustani classical music, surbahar exponent and the first wife of Pandit Ravi Shankar, died at Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai on Saturday morning. She was 91. She was ...

In 2000, late sitar legend Pandit Ravi Shankar’s first wife, the reclusive Annapurna Devi, discussed her torturous marriage with Man’s World’s Alif Surti, but o ...

In 2000, late sitar legend Pandit Ravi Shanker's first wife, the reclusive Annapurna Devi, discussed her torturous marriage with Man's World's Alif Surti, but only through handwritten notes.

In 2000, late sitar legend Pandit Ravi Shankar’s first wife, the reclusive Annapurna Devi, discussed her torturous marriage with Man’s World’s Alif Surti, but only through handwritten notes.

Ravi Shankar and Annapurna Devi (Courtesy the publisher) While Ravi Shankar played sitār for a jugalbandi with Ali Akbar Khan, both Ravi Shankar and Annapurna Devi played jugalbandi on the surbahār.

Ravi Shankar along with Annapurna Devi and Shubho arrived at Maihar. During Ravi Shankar’s stay of four days, we talked a lot. Ravi Shankar confirmed what Zubeidaji had told me about him.

Dissonant artistic visions drove Annapurna Devi and her husband Ravi Shankar apart, notes Swapan Kumar Bondyopadhyay. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/ Rediff.com March 30, 1955.

Annapurna Devi, a noted Indian musician and teacher whose decision to stop performing relatively early in her career made her something of an enigma, died on Oct. 13 in Mumbai. She was 91.