Ravi Shankar

Guru Maa portrays Annapurna Devi tenderly, as a devout musician who shared an enriching relationship with art

Shot in multiple cities, Guru Maa features interviews with fellow musicians and devout disciples, all of whom are in thrall Annapurna Devi's enormous talent and uniquely elusive personality

Poignant Song: Lakshmi Shankar's biography is affectionate but let down by its ordinary, casual storytelling

Lakshmi Shankar’s life holds great interest and Poignant Song outlines its broad contours, but the picture that emerges has not the excitement of light and shade, or depth and perspective.

Namita Devidayal's book on sitar virtuoso Ustad Vilayat Khan is a portrait of the man, and the musician

Author-journalist Namita Devidayal's latest book The Sixth String of Vilayat Khan attempts to 'create an impressionistic fluid portrait — of a magnificent artiste and a fragmented human being.'

Indian classical music legend Annapurna Devi, 91, passes away in Mumbai of age-related ailments

Annapurna Devi was an Indian surbahar player of Hindustani classical music and she was the daughter and disciple of the music maestro Baba Allauddin Khan.

CBI writes to Cambridge Analytica, Facebook and GSR in data breach case

Cambridge Analytica declared bankruptcy after using personal information of 87 million Facebook users.

After raising pro-freedom slogans at Sri Sri Ravi Shankar's event in Srinagar, people leave venue midway

Groups of people raised pro-freedom slogans at an event of Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in Srinagar on Sunday and left midway alleging that they were tricked

The Beatles in India: 50 years later, a look at how the band's stay in Rishikesh influenced their discography

The Beatles could let their hair down in India, the place where they would go on to write roughly 40 songs | #FirstCulture

Zakir Hussain: A Life in Music offers great insights into the mind of a brilliant artist and individual

Full of interesting anecdotes, with stimulating ideas about the universality of music, Nasreen Munni Kabir’s book on the life of Zakir Hussain is a fantastic read | #FirstCulture

On Aparajito, Pather Panchali's successor and Satyajit Ray's commentary on new vs old

In Aparajito, Satyajit Ray explores the themes of 'new vs old' through the relationship shared by Apu, who is fascinated by the promise of urban life, and his mother, who is rooted in the village | #FirstCulture

Chandrababu Naidu says Centre's failure to fulfil commitments to Andhra Pradesh causing unrest among people

Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Monday said the non-fulfilment of commitments made to the state by the Centre was causing unrest among people.