Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar (; 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 North Indian classical music 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.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, the upper chamber of the Parliament of India. He continued to perform until the end of his life. He was a recipient of numerous prestigious musical accolades, including a Polar Music Prize and four Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year for ''The Concert for Bangladesh'' in 1973. Provided by Wikipedia
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Attitudes of secondary teacher trainees towards entrepreneurial education by Ravi Shankar Gairola
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Initiating small group learning in a Caribbean medical school by P. Ravi Shankar
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Artificial intelligence in health professions education by P Ravi Shankar
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Medical humanities: developing into a mainstream discipline by P. Ravi Shankar
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This is never asked in the USMLE—why are you teaching it? by Pathiyil Ravi Shankar
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Challenges in shifting to an integrated curriculum in a Caribbean medical school by P. Ravi Shankar
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Self-financing students in private medical schools by P. Ravi Shankar
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Undergraduate medical education in Nepal: one size fits all? by P. Ravi Shankar
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Book review: Basics in medical education by P. Ravi Shankar
Published 2011-07-01
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Designing and conducting a two day orientation program for first semester undergraduate medical students by P. Ravi Shankar
Published 2014-11-01
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Conducting correlation seminars in basic sciences at KIST Medical College, Nepal by P. Ravi Shankar
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A Strong Maximum Principle for Nonlinear Nonlocal Diffusion Equations by Tucker Hartland, Ravi Shankar
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COVID-19 – reminds failure of compliant precaution practices in the society by Prasan Kumar Panda, Ravi Shankar
Published 2022-01-01
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