Mr. Ananda Shankar addressing the audience during Mardi Gras '83

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Mr. Ananda Shankar, who can be seen addressing an audience during Mardi Gras '83, was a well-known Indian Musician, who was known to merge Western and Eastern styles of music. He performed along with Pandit Ravishankar and Ustad Zakir Hussain during Mardi Gras in 1983.

Born in Almora, Uttar Pradesh in 1942, he was the son of dancers Uday and Amala Shankar and the nephew of Pandit Ravi Shankar. He studied sitar with Dr. Lalmani Mishra in Banaras at the Hindu University. In the late 1960s, he journeyed his way to the west coast of America and the pop world was soon fascinated by sitar. Informal jam sessions with Jimi Hendrix in 1969, soon resulted in attention from producers at Warner Reprise. In order to pursue his personal musical vision and goals, Ananda Shankar returned to India in the 1970s. By blending mridangam with guitar and sitar, and sarod and veena with jazz and rock drums, he was one of the earliest to combine traditional Indian instrumentation with Western music.

Collection:

N S Vinodh Collection

Album Name:

Mardi Gras 1983

Photograph ID:

001/0416/0001

Album ID:

0416

Date:

26 to 30 January 1983

Event:

Mardi Gras

Photographer:

N S Vinodh. After completing an early education in Bangalore, N. S. Vinodh obtained his B. Tech. in Civil Engineering from IIT Madras in 1986. Being the secretary of the Photography Club at IIT Madras during his third year, he was an avid photography enthusiast. He then went on to complete his MBA from IIM, Lucknow, and later spent his career holding senior positions in the field of Corporate Real Estate with leading multinational financial services companies. He continued to pursue his hobby of photography, integrating it with his love of travel and wildlife.

Place:

Central Lecture Theatre