{"id":64366,"date":"2012-12-12T12:49:46","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T12:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=64366"},"modified":"2012-12-26T23:53:09","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T23:53:09","slug":"legendary-sitarist-composer-ravi-shankar-dead-at-92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/legendary-sitarist-composer-ravi-shankar-dead-at-92\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Sitarist, Composer Ravi Shankar Dead At 92"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sitarist and composer Ravi Shankar, who helped introduce the sitar to the Western world through his collaborations with The Beatles, died in Southern California on Tuesday, his family said. He was 92.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/legendary-sitarist-composer-ravi-shankar-dead-at-92\/ravi-shankar\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-64367\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-64367\" title=\"Ravi Shankar\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Ravi-Shankar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Ravi-Shankar.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Ravi-Shankar-300x248.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Ravi-Shankar-800x661.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/12\/12\/ravi-shankar-sitar-death-idINDEE8BB02920121212\">more<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ji2AeDgCBik&amp;feature=youtu.be<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pFnyg3YhuP4<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O4RZaszNhB0&amp;feature=endscreen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":64367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2391],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-video-4"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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