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10 interesting facts about Pandit Ravi Shankar

New Delhi, Dec 12: India's best musician Pandit Ravi Shankar had a huge career span of nearly 70 years. He was a brand ambassador for Indian art, culture and music in the West. Few people



8. When  Mahatma Gandhi's died , Ravi Shankar, then in All India Radio  had to play mournful music on the national radio broadcaster. Drawing from the name Gandhi, he took the three sargam notes that approximate it—“Ga” (third), “Ni” (seventh) and “Dha” (sixth)—and developed a new melodic theme. He called this new raga Mohankauns, since it was similar to raga Malkauns. He later used the same raga as a refrain in his score for Richard Attenborough's Gandhi.