Word: uday
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DIED. Uday Shankar, 76, India's most celebrated dancer and brother of Sitarist Ravi Shankar; of heart and kidney disease; in Calcutta. Shankar began his career as a painter but at 21 was discovered by Russian Ballet Dancer Anna Pavlova and invited to accompany her on a tour of the U.S. A decade later he returned to New York with his own troupe and introduced to the West a lavish, dramatic version of classic Indian dance. His dream, Shankar proclaimed, was to "create an atmosphere where the soul of India could speak...