"Without...Yehudi Menuhin, the West may not have found Indian classical music and decades later...thanks to Menuhin’s chance meeting and later lasting friendship with the master sitarist Ravi Shankar, the Wets witnessed the sublimity that the merging of the Western and Indian classical music could produce."
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Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar (7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012) commonly known by the title Pandit, was an Indian musician and composer who played the sitar. He is known as the best-known contemporary Indian musician. He was a nominated member of Rajya Sabha, the upper chamber of the Parliament of India from 1986 to 1992. He was the recipient pf India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 1999. He also received three Grammy Awards.
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