Ravi Shankar took Indian classical music to world stages and introduced the sitar to Western audiences. His influence can still be felt today, 100 years after his birth.

Henry Diltz Q&A: the story of Laurel Canyon and LA folk. From Joni Mitchell to Jackson Browne, ... We’d have Ravi Shankar music playing. That was kind of the mood [laughs].

“Beauty” seemed somehow insufficient a description for the sounds that came from Ravi Shankar’s sitar in a concert hall. It was as if nature itself were being replicated on the stage ...

Ravi Shankar, the Grammy Award-winning Indian sitar virtuoso who became the world’s leading representative of South Asian music, exerted a major influence on popular music in the 1960s and was ...

When I was a child growing up in the 1980s, Ravi Shankar was like a kindly uncle to me. I knew him only through his records; his burly, smiling face adorned the covers of the many Shankar LPs and ...

Ravi Shankar reminds us of the real standard of musical genius: total individual commitment, dedication, and mastery joined with a collaborative generosity and a beginner’s open mind. Photograph ...