“You know people can say they picked up the sitar, played it two years and then get gigs on their own. Keigher says while audiences have embraced Shankar’s music, not everyone follows his rigorous training and guru-shishya tradition in which a student undergoes a long period of training with a master teacher. So he had a real affinity for Orchestra Hall and for Chicago.” Mesmerized by the sitar player’s music, Keigher eventually became his friend, and even attended the musician’s 90 th birthday celebration in California (despite having also arranged a tribute concert to Shankar at the same time in Chicago!). Keigher remembered Shankar telling the story of when he’d first performed at Orchestra Hall “when he was a young boy in his brother’s dance ensemble, in the late 1930s. But he says the sitar player’s connection to the city goes back much further. Music presenter Brian Keigher (also known as DJ Warp) began promoting Shankar’s music here in the early ’90s. He laughed while recalling how every time he totes his large instrument through O’Hare or other airports, people stop him and without fail utter a kind of three-word chant. Rahul Sharma is a sitar player and band leader of the local group Funkadesi. He says he has great admiration for Shankar’s “personality, charisma and ability to relate to audiences.
Liefer never met Shankar, though he was actually in India when the Beatles were there. His guru or teacher was taught by Allaudin Khan, the same man who trained Shankar. In Liefer’s case, the connection to Shankar is deep. Still, he says he comes from the “school” of Shankar.īy school Liefer doesn’t mean an actual building or registered institution, but a particular approach to performance. Musician Lyon Liefer doesn’t play the sitar, he plays the bansuri, a North Indian side-blown flute.
In Chicago, that group includes fans, presenters and performers of his music. While Anoushka has expressed deep pain and a feeling of numbness, which she is going through after learning about the Hyderabad incident, singer Sona Mohapatra and filmmaker Alankrita Shrivastava have blamed the patriarchal mindset dominating Indian society for such crimes.Īlankrita said: “In our country misogyny is accepted, violence against women is normalised and patriarchy encourages crimes against women,” Sona feels that the society is unnecessarily preachy towards women who are constantly told “how to behave, what to wear, what time to come home at.People around the world are mourning the legendary Indian musician Ravi Shankar, who died earlier this week. In the last year alone I’ve cried over eight year olds and twelve year olds meeting similar fates.” And yet… Where is the change? This week it was (Hyderabad victim), gangraped and burnt and murdered. She tweeted: “India made new laws and set up new courts and people demanded justice. However, despite introducing new laws and setting up new courts, the scene of women’s safety in our country remains unchanged, feels the sitar maestro. This was part of a wave of women in rage and pain demanding change.” I felt her attack in my own body and ended up sharing a video about my own sexual abuse. This to me was the real beginning of the women’s movements we’ve seen in recent years. She continued: “My own life changed with her attack. Just how the earth’s axis changed after the 2004 tsunami, I felt an emotional axis bend at this point in time.” Reminding everyone about Delhi’s Nirbhaya gangrape case of 2012, Anoushka wrote: “Nearly seven years ago to the day, the world mourned together over the horrifically brutal gang rape and murder of Jyoti Singh Pandey.
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Because nothing fu**ing changes and women are being raped every minute every day.”Īnoushka posted a series of tweets venting her pain and anger at the brutal incident and once again pointed a finger at how such incidents repeatedly keep happening in our country and yet nothing changes. I want to scream and yet for once I feel voiceless. And India in particular is no country for women. Mumbai: Sitar player and composer Anoushka Shankar has reacted to the barbaric gangrape and murder of a veterinary doctor in Hyderabad saying India is “no country for women”.Ĭalling rape a global epidemic, the composer tweeted: “This is a global epidemic.
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