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Hundreds attend memorial service for Pandit Ravi Shankar in the US

Encinitas, California, Dec 21: Hundreds of friends and family have paid tribute to sitar virtuoso Pandit Ravi Shankar at a public memorial service near his southern California home. The musician was remembered Thursday as an

hundreds attend memorial service for pandit ravi shankar in the us hundreds attend memorial service for pandit ravi shankar in the us
Encinitas, California, Dec 21: Hundreds of friends and family have paid tribute to sitar virtuoso Pandit Ravi Shankar at a public memorial service near his southern California home.



The musician was remembered Thursday as an unfailingly generous teacher with a gentle spirit and sense of humor whose music fostered understanding between East and West.

Conductor Zubin Mehta said he felt like a "little crumb" listening to Shankar play. Olivia Harrison said Shankar helped a young George Harrison achieve a more meaningful life.

Shankar's daughters, singer Norah Jones and Grammy-nominated sitarist Anoushka Shankar, were in the audience at the Self-Realization Fellowship center in Encinitas, the oceanfront suburb where the musician lived for the last two decades.

Shankar died last week at age 92.

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