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'It’s a proper London townhouse. It feels very grown-up': Inside Anoushka Shankar's family home, full of references to home country India
September 18, 2025 5:57 pm
From textiles that nod to her Indian heritage to the sun-soaked palette inspired by her time in California, Anoushka's home is a beautifully layered space that tells her story without saying a word.
Anoushka Shankar says father Pt Ravi Shankar’s death made her ‘a little freer’ to share her story of sexual abuse: 'I was in immediate grief'
July 08, 2025 6:08 pm
Anoushka Shankar opened up about experiencing sexual abuse, and how the death of her father Pandit Ravi Shankar, closely followed by the Nirbhaya case, catalysed her decision to speak publicly about her own trauma.
Chapter III We Return to Light review: Where music dances with light
May 20, 2025 6:16 pm
Chapter 3: We Return to Light, conceptually, is a return to dawn as well as the basics. Three different producers, different geographies that are home in different ways and different ideas that are still woven into a thread.
'As I grew, I realised music was safe and I could allow more of myself into it': Anoushka Shankar
January 14, 2024 8:32 am
Sitar player Anoushka Shankar on finding the sublime through a trilogy of mini albums, the dichotomy between an artiste's vulnerablity and fear of overexposure, and the disappointment of never taking a Grammy home
Anoushka Shankar reflects on moments of vulnerability during music performances: 'We simply have to go on'
September 05, 2023 4:34 pm
"Playing in Edinburgh was difficult. I suffer from debilitating migraines and last Sunday was one of the few times the peak of a very bad migraine coincided with showtime," she shared
Anoushka Shankar and Arooj Aftab’s performance on the Grammy stage is an interesting first
February 06, 2023 4:18 pm
Anoushka Shankar and Arooj Aftab’s performance was also perhaps the first India-Pakistan collaboration on the Grammy stage, which makes these five minutes noteworthy.
How Anoushka Shankar deals with setbacks: 'When bad things happen...'
December 26, 2022 4:12 pm
"With time and experience, I have learnt that I survive and heal, and that time heals; there's a long journey to things," said the sitarist
You don’t need people to come forward in every field to assume there are men perpetrating violence against women: Anoushka Shankar
October 03, 2020 4:42 pm
Anoushka shares her thoughts on understanding technology during the pandemic, working on the score of Mira Nair’s A Suitable Boy and how sexual harassment in the world of music needs to be tackled
Remembering Pandit Ravi Shankar’s sublime notes in his centenary year
April 14, 2020 2:56 pm
One of sitar’s greatest exponents, who took Indian classical music to the world, Robindro Shankar Chowdhury would have turned 100 on April 7
Anoushka Shankar: ‘I look inwards a lot more than I used to’
February 09, 2020 1:05 pm
The sitar player on heartbreak, life after divorce, her new album and a first-time stage collaboration with sister Norah Jones in Pandit Ravi Shankar’s birth centenary.
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In Pictures: Anoushka Shankar on her India tour
December 19, 2022 6:00 pm
Anoushka Shankar wowed people with her performance
ANOUSHKA SHANKAR VIDEOS
Sitarist Anoushka Shankar's next album on world's refugee crisis
January 20, 2016 8:06 am
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 20 (ANI): Sitarist Anoushka Shankar said her next album ‘Land of Gold’ has been influenced by the refugee crisis in the world and would probably be released by March this year. Shankar, five-time Grammy award nominee and daughter of legendary sitar virtuoso Pandit Ravi Shankar, said ‘Land of Gold’ focuses on borders and cultures. Shankar will perform at the opening of the annual ‘Nishagandhi’ festival, along with other artists, on Wednesday. The 34-year-old musician will also be performing her album ‘Home’, which was nominated in the 'Best World Music Album' category of the upcoming 58th Grammy awards.
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