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What George Harrison learnt from Ravi Shankar

Pandit Ravi Shankar was George Harrison's link into the Vedic world.A fascinating excerpt from Kavita Das's Poignant Song: The Life And Music Of Lakshmi Shankar to mark Pandit Ravi Shankar's birth......

Pope Francis says 'world at war', decries terrorist attack on French church

Pope Francis said on Wednesday the world was at war but argued that religion was not the cause, as he arrived in Poland a day after jihadists murdered a Catholic priest in France. In his first......

12 oddball photos from around the world

The gallery of the strange and wacky events from across the world. Festival-goers wrestle in the mud during the annual Boryeong Mud Festival at Daecheon Beach in Boryeong, South Korea. The mud,......

World's greatest rave ends in blaze of glory

The Burning Man festival came to its traditional spectacular conclusion on Saturday night, when the huge wooden effigy that gives the event its name was set alight. More than 50,000......

Sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar passes away

Legendary musician Pandit Ravi Shankar passed awayin San Diego on Wednesday. He was 92. The musician was admitted to the Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla last Thursday after he complained of......

Buffett celebrates 50th year at Berkshire, faces tough questions

Buffett gave no hints about who would succeed him and defended ties with Brazil's 3G Capital during the annual meeting Berkshire Hathaway Inc shareholders on Saturday celebrated Warren Buffett's......

Life Before Pi: The Brilliant Films Of Ang Lee

It did not come easy for Ang Lee.Today, the 58-year old Taiwan-born Oscar winning filmmaker, the man and the energy behind Life of Pi, is widely recognised as one of the leading directors in the......

The greatest concert in rock history

It's been 40 years. Four decades since rock and roll hit its flower-powered zenith in a New York farm. Half a million watched, over 30 acts performed. It never got bigger than Woodstock, from......

Strong Asian presence in Cannes this year

Strangely enough, the Indian presence at the Festival de Cannes, in the last few years, hasn't risen above solicited space on the jury. After author Arundhati Roy and actors Nandita Das and......

'My film shows gender issues'

You don't require a Godfather to make it in the Hindi film industry, and first-time director Sudipto Chattopadhyay seems to be all out to prove it. Chattopadhyay managed to find a producer in......

Carlos Santana, plugged in!

Woodstock music festival, 1969. A 22 year old from Tijuana, Mexico, was on hallucinogens. Nothing out of place, just that the mannish boy was about to play his first big show, which had been......

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What George Harrison learnt from Ravi Shankar

Pope Francis says 'world at war', decries terrorist attack on French church

12 oddball photos from around the world

World's greatest rave ends in blaze of glory

Sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar passes away

Buffett celebrates 50th year at Berkshire, faces tough questions

Life Before Pi: The Brilliant Films Of Ang Lee

The greatest concert in rock history

Strong Asian presence in Cannes this year

'My film shows gender issues'

Carlos Santana, plugged in!

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