Word: ravi
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...need to be serious about it,' " she says. Anoushka Shankar became so serious that by the time she was 13 she was performing alongside her father, whose name is synonymous with the stringed Indian instrument and who was responsible for it becoming known in the West. The legendary Ravi, now 82, has cut back on his concerts, but he predicts that his 21-year-old daughter is on the way to building a reputation that will someday eclipse his. "Anoushka has so much more than I had," he says. "She not only knows what I knew, what I taught...
...Ravi became known to the West during the '60s, when he played at Woodstock and the Monterey festival and collaborated with the Beatles. His most recent album won a world music Grammy earlier this year. Anoushka, who lives with her parents in New Delhi - home to the new Ravi Shankar Center - and San Diego, also gets her musical inspiration from both East and West. Her repertoire is rooted in India's Hindu tradition, but colored by an upbringing in London, New Delhi and California spent listening to artists such as Sting and Tori Amos. "People tend to find...
Lately she has developed an appreciation for jazz, thanks in part to the chart-topping debut album of her 23-year-old half-sister, Norah Jones. They only met five years ago - Jones' mother distanced herself and her daughter from Ravi after he married Anoushka's mother, Sukanya. Though the belated sibling relationship was a bit rocky at first, the sisters have become close and even have similar tattoos on their backs of a stylized lotus Anoushka designed. Will they ever collaborate? Perhaps. "We've tried to mess around a little. We just started laughing and gave up," says Anoushka...
...Ravi P. Agrawal ’05, a Crimson editor, is a government concentrator in Adams House. He is currently interning at the Times of India in New Delhi. Having learned to stop worrying about the bomb, he is now braving 42 degree centigrade temperatures...
...What the heck is Bollywood? Well, it's not your uncle's Satyajit Ray movies--stately pace, unknown actors, Ravi Shankar sitar music. Bollywood is a star-driven cosmos--actresses with names like Dimple Kapadia, Preity Zinta and Karisma Kapoor; hunks of every age, from stalwart Amitabh Bachchan, 59, to giga-charmer Shahrukh Khan, 36, to suave, elaborately muscled Hrithik Roshan, 28 (all three graced the 2001 blockbuster Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham). Bollywood operates under the vulture eyes of a voracious entertainment press and under the shadow of organized crime. Two years ago, Hrithik's father, director Rakesh Roshan...