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Oct 17, 2018 · Annapurna Devi, the famously reclusive surbahar player, the teacher of the likes of Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, Nityanand Haldipur, Nikhil Banerjee etc., and the long estranged wife of Pandit Ravi Shankar, passed away in Mumbai this morning at the age of 91.
Oct 23, 2018 · But if outsiders knew her at all, it was most likely only as an accessory to the men in her life: as the first wife of a worldwide sitar celebrity, the late Ravi Shankar, or as the daughter...
Ravi Shankar (Bengali pronunciation: [ˈrobi ˈʃɔŋkor]; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, sometimes spelled as Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury; 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012) was an Indian sitarist and composer.
Aug 31, 2020 · Stuck in the centre of a media storm insinuated by her strained relationship with her famous father, the legendary sitar player, Pandit Ravi Shankar (the only controversy she ever courted), she emerged calm, collected and too well-brought-up to be mudslinged.
Oct 14, 2018 · 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.
Feb 8, 2024 · Annapurna Devi was the daughter of the great Ustad Allauddin Khan and the sister of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. Coming from a musically-invested family, she quickly became a master of the surbahar...
Apr 7, 2020 · As we mark the 100th birth anniversary of sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar today, his wife Sukanya Shankar tells us about his passion for the craft, how her admiration for Kaku (uncle, as she used to call him fondly) turned into love, Pandit ji 's relationship with his daughters Norah Jones and Anoushka Shankar, and more.
Pandit Ravi Shankar with wife Sukanya Shankar (right) and daughters Anoushka Shankar and Norah Jones. (Alan Kozlowski) The late sitar maestro, who died in 2012, aged 92, was the face of Indian...
Apr 7, 2020 · For the last three years, Sukanya Shankar had been involved in planning an extensive tribute to her husband, sitar legend Pandit Ravi Shankar, to mark his 100th birth anniversary.
Oct 16, 2018 · Ustad Allauddin Khan’s daughter, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan’s sister and Pt Ravi Shankar’s first wife, she chose to remain away from the limelight. She hardly ever performed in public, never formally recorded, didn’t care for awards and didn’t do interviews.
