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Sunday, November 7, 2010

Anoushka Shankar


Anoushka Shankar (Bengali:born 9 June 1981) is an Indian sitar player and composer  in the United States. She is the daughter of Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player, and Sukanya Rajan, a bank employee. Through her father, she is the half-sister of Grammy Award winner Norah Jones.


A.Shankar was born in London and divided her childhood between London and Delhi. As a teenager, she lived in Encinitas, California and attended San Dieguito Academy. A 1999 honors graduate, Shankar decided to pursue a career in music rather than attend college.

Anoushka is married to British director Joe Wright, and is expecting their first child in the spring of 2011.

Shankar began training on the sitar with her father as a child, gave a public performance at the age of thirteen, and signed her first record contract at 16.

She released her first album, Anoushka, in 1998. Later, in February 2000, Shankar became the first woman to perform at The Ramakrishna Centre in Kolkata. Both Shankar and her half-sister, Norah Jones, were nominated for Grammy awards in 2003.

Shankar, in collaboration with Karsh Kale, released Breathing Under Water on 28 August 2007. It is a mix of classical sitar and electronica beats and melodies. Notable guest vocals include her half-sister, Norah Jones, Sting, and Ravi Shankar who performs a sitar duet with his daughter.




In 2009, Anoushka started writing weekly columns for HT City, the lifestyle supplement of Hindustan Times. These columns appear online on social network Desimartini

On 29 November 2002, she performed and conducted at the Concert for George held at the Royal Albert Hall in London. It was held in memory of George Harrison and was modeled after Ravi Shankar's benefit concert with Harrison, the 1971 Concert for Bangladesh.


Shankar and Jethro Tull postponed a concert scheduled for 29 November 2008 in Mumbai  after the November 2008 Mumbai attacks. They reorganized the performance as A Billion Hands Concert, a benefit performance for victims of the attacks, and held it on 5 December 2008. Shankar commented on this decision stating that: "As a musician, this is how I speak, how I express the anger within me [...] our entire tour has been changed by these events and even though the structure of the concert may remain the same, emotionally perhaps we are saying a lot more."



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Monday, September 20, 2010



Dance Like Flames In a Peaceful Hope

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

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Thursday, August 5, 2010

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Monday, July 26, 2010

Gurupoornima 2010 July 25


Ustad Zakir Hussain


It was a special evening on Sunday as prominent personalities from the music fraternity got together on one stage to celebrate the occasion of Guru Poornima and felicitate Ustad Zakir Hussain and recognise him as the successor to the Punjab Gharana of Tabla.

On the occasion, a ‘safa’ or turban was tied on the maestro’s head

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