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itnessing over one million of his countrymen killed by the Wrath of God and politicians. Ravi Shankar called upon George Harrison to see if something could be done to help the refugees. The result of their meetings was the Concert for Bangla Desh on August 1 and, after a great deal of public and private hassling, a three disc recording of the concert...
Side One contains an introduction to the concert by Harrison and a sitar and sarod duet by Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan, a meeting of the superstars of the East as Shankar and Khan rarely appear on stage together. Shankar and Khan faced a Western audience that managed to commit the faux pas of clapping after the musicians finished tuning, thinking that they had finished playing a song, but they managed to sound not too upset and rendered a beautiful performance...
CONCERT FOR BANGLA DESH (Apple, 3 LPs). The indoor Woodstock of 1971: Bob Dylan, Leon Russell, George Harrison and Ravi Shankar together and live at New York's Madison Square Garden...
...area has been a fertile ground for political turmoil among terrorist groups, criminals masquerading under political banners, and countless university graduates with no prospect of jobs. But officials, faced with the urgency of caring for so many additional millions, have necessarily shifted other problems into the background. Says Siddhartha Shankar Ray, Mrs. Gandhi's Minister of West Bengal affairs: "My big problem is how to reopen the 2,500 schools that have been closed to house the refugees...
THOUGH the raga has been widely popularized in the United States in recent years, thanks to its introduction by Indian musicians Ravi Shankar and Yehudi Menuhin, a great unfamiliarity with the art as it is actually practiced in India still exists...