Raga Mala: The Autobiography of Ravi ShankarRavi Shankar is one of the world's foremost sitar players. In this text, he tells of his humble beginnings, his teenage years as a dancer in the glamorous world of 1930s Paris and New York, and of hearing the clarion call of music and studying sitar for seven years. |
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