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Anoushka Shankar

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Anoushka Shankar (Bengali: অনুষ্কা শঙ্কর) (born 9 June 1981) is a British Indian sitar player and composer. [1]

96 relations: A Billion Hands Concert, Angel Records, Anourag, Anoushka (album), Area 52 (album), Bengali language, Billboard (magazine), Billboard 200, Billboard charts, Breathing Under Water, Chants of India, Concert for George, Concert for George (album), Concha Buika, David Geffen Hall, Delhi, Deutsche Grammophon, Duquende, Electronica, EMI, Encinitas, California, Eric Clapton, Full Circle: Carnegie Hall 2000, George Harrison, Germany, Grammy Award, Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album, Herbie Hancock, Hindustan Times, India, Indian classical music, Indian people, Javier Limón, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Jeff Lynne, Jethro Tull (band), Joe Wright, Joshua Bell, Karsh Kale, Konzerthaus Berlin, Lenny Kravitz, Live at Carnegie Hall (Anoushka Shankar album), London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Undersound, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, Manhattan Records, MIDIval Punditz, Miloš Karadaglić, Mstislav Rostropovich, New Straits Times, ..., Nitin Sawhney, Norah Jones, One Billion Rising, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Pepe Habichuela, Philip Glass, Piano, Productores de Música de España, Radio Retaliation, Ravi Shankar, Richard Gere, Rise (Anoushka Shankar album), Rodrigo y Gabriela, Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Rudolstadt-Festival, Sacred Love, San Dieguito Academy, Shubhendra Shankar, Singing, Siri Fort, Sitar, Songlines (magazine), Sting (musician), Swiss Hitparade, Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique, Tanpura, The Concert for Bangladesh, The Imagine Project, The Inner Light (song), Thievery Corporation, Time (magazine), Top Heatseekers, Traces of You, Traveller (Anoushka Shankar album), United Kingdom, Versions (Thievery Corporation album), West Meets East, Volume 2, World Food Programme, Yehudi Menuhin, Zakir Hussain (musician), Zubin Mehta, 2008 Mumbai attacks, 2012 Delhi gang rape. Expand index (46 more) »

A Billion Hands Concert

A Billion Hands Concert was a benefit performance held on 5 December 2008 in Mumbai, India, by Anoushka Shankar and Jethro Tull.

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Angel Records

Angel Records was a record label founded by EMI in 1953.

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Anourag

Anourag is an album of Indian classical music performed by Anoushka Shankar, released in 2000.

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Anoushka (album)

Anoushka is the debut album of Indian sitar player Anoushka Shankar, released in 1998.

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Area 52 (album)

Area 52 is a 2012 album by acoustic duo Rodrigo y Gabriela and the Cuban orchestra known as C.U.B.A. It is Rodrigo y Gabriela's fifth album overall, and their first collaboration with another group.

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Bengali language

Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in South Asia.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Billboard charts

The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of singles or albums in the United States and elsewhere.

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Breathing Under Water

Breathing Under Water is an album by Anoushka Shankar and Karsh Kale released on 28 August 2007.

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Chants of India

Chants of India is an album by Indian musician Ravi Shankar released in 1997 on Angel Records.

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Concert for George

The Concert for George was held at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 29 November 2002 as a memorial to George Harrison on the first anniversary of his death.

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Concert for George (album)

Concert for George is a live tribute soundtrack album in honour of George Harrison, issued in 2003 in conjunction with the simultaneous DVD release of the same name.

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Concha Buika

María Concepción Balboa Buika (born 11 May 1972) known as Concha Buika and by the stage name Buika, is a Spanish singer.

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David Geffen Hall

David Geffen Hall is a concert hall in New York City's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts complex on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

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Delhi

Delhi (Dilli), officially the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT), is a city and a union territory of India.

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Deutsche Grammophon

Deutsche Grammophon is a German classical music record label that was the precursor of corporation called PolyGram.

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Duquende

Juan Rafael Cortés Santiago, known as Duquende (born 1965), is a Spanish Romani flamenco singer (cantaor).

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Electronica

Electronica encompasses a broad group of electronic-based styles such as techno, house, ambient, jungle and other electronic music styles intended not just for dancing.

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EMI

EMI Group Limited (originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries and also referred to as EMI Records Ltd.) was a British multinational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.

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Encinitas, California

Encinitas is a beach city in the North County area of San Diego County, California.

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Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton, (born 1945), is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Full Circle: Carnegie Hall 2000

Full Circle: Carnegie Hall 2000 is a live album by Indian musician and composer Ravi Shankar, released in 2001 through the record label Angel Records.

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George Harrison

George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was an English guitarist, singer-songwriter, and producer who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album

The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album was an honor presented to recording artists between 2004 and 2011 for quality contemporary world music albums.

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Herbie Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor.

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Hindustan Times

Hindustan Times is an Indian English-language daily newspaper founded in 1924 with roots in the Indian independence movement of the period ("Hindustan" being a historical name for India).

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian classical music

Indian classical music is a genre of South Asian music.

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Indian people

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Javier Limón

Javier Limón (born 1973) is a record producer, singer and songwriter born and raised in Madrid, Spain.

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Jean-Pierre Rampal

Jean-Pierre Louis Rampal (7 January 1922 – 20 May 2000) was a French flautist.

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Jeff Lynne

Jeffrey Lynne (born 30 December 1947) is an English songwriter, singer, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist who co-founded the rock band Electric Light Orchestra (ELO).

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Jethro Tull (band)

Jethro Tull are a British rock band formed in Blackpool, Lancashire in 1967.

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Joe Wright

Joseph "Joe" Wright (born 25 August 1972) is an English film director.

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Joshua Bell

Joshua David Bell (born December 9, 1967) is an American Grammy award-winning violinist and conductor.

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Karsh Kale

Karsh Kale (pronounced Kursh Kah-lay, कर्ष काळे in Marathi; born 1 November 1974, West Bromwich) is an American musician, record producer, songwriter, film composer and DJ.

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Konzerthaus Berlin

The Konzerthaus Berlin is a concert hall situated on the Gendarmenmarkt square in the central Mitte district of Berlin housing the German orchestra Konzerthausorchester Berlin.

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Lenny Kravitz

Leonard Albert Kravitz (born May 26, 1964) is an American singer, songwriter, actor and record producer.

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Live at Carnegie Hall (Anoushka Shankar album)

Live at Carnegie Hall is a live album by Anoushka Shankar released in 2001, and recorded at Carnegie Hall in New York and at the Salisbury Festival. The album earned a Grammy nomination for Best World Music Album.

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London Philharmonic Orchestra

The London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) is one of five permanent symphony orchestras based in London.

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London Undersound

Nitin Sawhney's eighth studio album London Undersound was released on, by Cooking Vinyl.

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Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is a song credited to Lennon–McCartney that appears on the Beatles' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

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Manhattan Records

Manhattan Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group and operates as a branch of Capitol Music Group.

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MIDIval Punditz

MIDIval Punditz is an Indian fusion group consisting of two Delhi-based musicians, Gaurav Raina and Tapan Raj.

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Miloš Karadaglić

Miloš Karadaglić (Montenegrin Cyrillic: Милош Карадаглић, born 1983), sometimes known just by his mononym Miloš, is an award-winning classical guitarist and Deutsche Grammophon/Mercury Classics recording artist from Montenegro.

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Mstislav Rostropovich

Mstislav Leopoldovich "Slava" Rostropovich (Мстисла́в Леопо́льдович Ростропо́вич, Mstislav Leopol'dovič Rostropovič,; 27 March 192727 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian cellist and conductor.

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New Straits Times

The New Straits Times is an English-language newspaper published in Malaysia.

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Nitin Sawhney

Nitin Sawhney (born 1964) is a British Indian musician, producer and composer.

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Norah Jones

Norah Jones (born Geetali Norah Shankar; March 30, 1979) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist.

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One Billion Rising

One Billion Rising is a global movement, founded by Eve Ensler, to end rape and sexual violence against women.

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Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (founded 1972) is a classical music chamber orchestra based in New York City.

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Patricia Kopatchinskaja

Patricia Kopatchinskaja (born 1977) is a Moldovan-Austrian-Swiss violinist.

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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA; stylized PeTA) is an American animal rights organization based in Norfolk, Virginia, and led by Ingrid Newkirk, its international president.

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Pepe Habichuela

Pepe Habichuela (born 1944 as José Antonio Carmona Carmona) is a Spanish flamenco guitarist, cited as one of the great flamenco masters and one of Spain's finest contemporary guitarists.

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Philip Glass

Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer.

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Piano

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.

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Productores de Música de España

Productores de Música de España (Spanish Music Producers) (shortened as Promusicae, sometimes stylised PROMUSICAE) is the organisation responsible for the Spanish Albums Chart and other music charts.

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Radio Retaliation

Radio Retaliation is the fifth studio album by American electronic music duo Thievery Corporation, released on September 23, 2008 by ESL Music.

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Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar (Bengali: রবি শঙ্কর) (7 April 192011 December 2012), born Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury, his name often preceded by the title Pandit ('Master'), was an Indian musician and a composer of Hindustani classical music.

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Richard Gere

Richard Tiffany Gere (born August 31, 1949) is an American actor and humanitarian activist.

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Rise (Anoushka Shankar album)

Rise is an album by Anoushka Shankar released on 27 September 2005.

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Rodrigo y Gabriela

Rodrigo y Gabriela (Rodrigo and Gabriela) are a Mexican classical guitar duo whose music is influenced by a number of genres including nuevo flamenco, rock, and heavy metal.

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Royal Albert Hall

The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, which has held the Proms concerts annually each summer since 1941.

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Royal Festival Hall

The Royal Festival Hall is a 2,500-seat concert, dance and talks venue within Southbank Centre in London.

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Rudolstadt-Festival

The Rudolstadt-Festival (till 2015 TFF ("Tanz- und Folkfest") Rudolstadt) is a German folk, roots and world music festival.

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Sacred Love

Sacred Love is the seventh studio album by Sting.

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San Dieguito Academy

San Dieguito High School Academy, originally known as San Dieguito Union High School and San Dieguito High School, is a public high school in the San Dieguito Union High School District in Encinitas, California, San Diego County, which was established in 1936.

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Shubhendra Shankar

Shubhendra Shankar (শুভেন্দ্র শঙ্কর; 30 March 1942 – 15 September 1992), also known as Shubho Shankar, was a graphic artist, musician and composer.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Siri Fort

Siri Fort, in the city of New Delhi, was built during the rule of Alauddin Khilji, the Turkic (Afghan) ruler of the Delhi Sultanate, to defend the city from the onslaught of the Mongols.

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Sitar

The sitar (or; सितार, Punjabi: ਸਿਤਾਰ) is a plucked stringed instrument used in Hindustani classical music.

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Songlines (magazine)

Songlines is a British based magazine launched in 1999 that covers music from traditional and popular to contemporary and fusion, featuring artists from around the globe.

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Sting (musician)

Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner (born 2 October 1951), known as Sting, is an English singer, songwriter, and actor.

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Swiss Hitparade

The Swiss Hitparade (Schweizer Hitparade) are Switzerland's main music sales charts.

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Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique

The National Syndicate of Phonographic Publishing (Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique; SNEP) is the inter-professional organization which protects the interests of the French record industry.

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Tanpura

The tanpura (तानपूरा; or tambura, tanpuri) is a long-necked plucked string instrument found in various forms in Indian music.

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The Concert for Bangladesh

The Concert for Bangladesh (or Bangla Desh, as the country was originally spelled) was the name given to two benefit concerts organised by former Beatles lead guitarist George Harrison and Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar.

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The Imagine Project

The Imagine Project is a studio album by American jazz pianist Herbie Hancock released on June 22, 2010.

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The Inner Light (song)

"The Inner Light" is a song by the English rock group the Beatles, written by George Harrison.

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Thievery Corporation

Thievery Corporation is an American electronic music duo consisting of Rob Garza and Eric Hilton.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Top Heatseekers

Top Heatseekers are "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by ''Billboard'' magazine.

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Traces of You

Traces of You is the seventh studio album by Indian sitarist Anoushka Shankar.

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Traveller (Anoushka Shankar album)

Traveller is a studio album by Indian sitarist Anoushka Shankar, released in October 2011 through Deutsche Grammophon.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Versions (Thievery Corporation album)

Versions is an album by Thievery Corporation, released in May 2006.

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West Meets East, Volume 2

West Meets East, Volume 2 is an album by American violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar, released in 1968.

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World Food Programme

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the food-assistance branch of the United Nations and the world's largest humanitarian organization addressing hunger and promoting food security.

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Yehudi Menuhin

Yehudi Menuhin, Baron Menuhin, (22 April 191612 March 1999) was an American-born violinist and conductor who spent most of his performing career in Britain.

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Zakir Hussain (musician)

Zakir Hussain (born 9 March 1951) is an Indian tabla player in Hindustani classical music, musical producer, film actor and composer.

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Zubin Mehta

Zubin Mehta (born 29 April 1936) is an Indian conductor of Western classical music.

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2008 Mumbai attacks

The 2008 Mumbai attacks (also referred to as 26/11) were a group of terrorist attacks that took place in November 2008, when 10 members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Islamic terrorist organisation based in Pakistan, carried out a series of 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four days across Mumbai.

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2012 Delhi gang rape

The 2012 Delhi gang rape case involved a rape and fatal assault that occurred on 16 December 2012 in Munirka, a neighbourhood in South Delhi.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoushka_Shankar

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