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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. Indian classicial musicians Zakir Hussain, Shiv Kumar Sharma and Vishwamohan Bhatt. And the man who brought these two very different musical worlds together: Ravi Shankar.

Like his grandfather and father before him, Sharma built, tuned and repaired instruments for the sitar virtuoso, who introduced Westerners to Indian classical music, and through his friendship with Harrison became a mainstay of the 1960s counterculture scene.

From his tiny shop tucked into the crowded lanes of central Delhi's Bhagat Singh market, Sharma traveled the world with Shankar. Late in the maestro's life, as his health and strength flagged, he even designed a smaller version of the instrument that allowed him to keep playing.

Shankar, who died Tuesday at age 92, was "a saint, an emperor and lord of music," Sharma says in a tribute posted to the website of his sought-after shop, Rikhi Ram's Music.

"When I opened my eyes there was him," says Sharma, 44, surrounded by display cases full of sitars, sarangis (a stringed instrument played with a violin-like bow), guitars, tabla drums and sarods, a deeply resonating instrument played by plucking the strings.

Shankar "was music and music was him," he says.

Sharma's grandfather started the business in 1920 in the northern city of Lahore, now in Pakistan. He met a

Anoushka Shankar, daughter of legendary sitarist Ravi Shankar, who died in December, has revealed in a YouTube video that she suffered sexual and emotional abuse at the hands of a family friend for many years during her childhood.

Shankar, half sister of Norah Jones and an accomplished sitarist herself, said she was speaking out now as an act of solidarity with the women of India, in memory of the Delhi medical student who was brutally gang-raped Dec. 16 and died two weeks later. The rape incident led to street protests across India and has caused a nationwide moment of introspection over the rights of women in Indian society. 

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In the video, recorded in her London home and posted Wednesday, the 31-year-old musician says: “As a child I suffered sexual and emotional abuse for several years at the hands of a man my parents trusted implicitly. Growing up, like most women I know, I suffered various forms of groping, touching, verbal abuse and other things I didn’t know how to deal with, I didn’t know I could change.”

She went on: “As a woman I find I am frequently living in fear. Afraid to walk alone at night, afraid to answer a man who asks for the time … and enough is enough. I am rising, for the Delhi rape victim and women like her. I am rising with the amazing women of my country. I am rising for the child in me, who I don’t think will ever forgive and recover from what happened to her.

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Shankar’s message is an action of support for the One Billion Rising campaign, which is calling on 1 billion people around the world to rise up today, Valentine’s Day, to demand an end to violence against women. The movement was founded by American playwright and feminist activist Eve Ensler. The campaign that began

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Sneha Shankar is an Indian playback singer and live performer. She has sung for many Bollywood movies, including Hanuman: Da' Damdaar, and Chup: Revenge of the Artist.

Early life

Sneha Shankar is the daughter of singer and music director Ram Shankar, and granddaughter of Shankar of the Sufi singers duo Shankar-Shambhu. At the age of six she appeared in a TV show MTV Sound Trippin on MTV India.

Career

Shankar started her career and participated in various singing reality shows including The Superstar Singer' & 'Indian Idol - Season 15'.

In 2019 she sang for the Hindi version of a Hollywood movie The Lion King.

She has worked with various music composers including Himesh Reshammiya, Sneha Khanwalkar, Amit Trivedi, and Jeet Gannguli.

Discography

Film songs

Non-film songs

Television appearances

Singles

TV serial songs

Awards

Indian Television Academy Awards

References

External links

Indian musician and sitar player (1920–2012)

For other people named Ravi Shankar, see Ravi Shankar (disambiguation).

Ravi Shankar (Bengali pronunciation:[ˈrobiˈʃɔŋkor]; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, sometimes spelled as Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury; 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012) was an Indian sitarist and composer. A sitar virtuoso, he became the world's best-known expert of Indian classical music (in Sitar) in the second half of the 20th century, and influenced many musicians in India and throughout the world. Shankar was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999. He is also the father of American singer Norah Jones and British-American musician and sitar player Anoushka Shankar.

Shankar was born to a Bengali family in India, and spent his youth as a dancer touring India and Europe with the dance group of his brother Uday Shankar. At age 18, he gave up dancing to pursue a career in music, studying the sitar for seven years under court musician Allauddin Khan. After finishing his studies in 1944, Shankar worked as a composer, creating the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, and was music director of All India Radio, New Delhi, from 1949 to 1956. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score for scoring the blockbuster Gandhi (1982).

In 1956, Shankar began to tour Europe and the Americas playing Indian classical music and increased its popularity there in the 1960s through teaching, performance, and his association with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Beatles guitarist George Harrison. His influence on Harrison helped popularize the use of Indian instruments in Western pop music in the latter half of the 1960s. Shankar engaged Western music by writing compositions for sitar and orchestra and toured the world in the 1970s and 1980s. From 1986 to 1992, he served as a nominated member of Rajya Sabha,