True Bromance
Philip Clark: Ravi Shankar’s Ragas, 15 July 2021
Indian Sun: The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar
by Oliver Craske.
Faber, 672 pp., £12.99, June,978 0 571 35086 5 Show More
by Oliver Craske.
Faber, 672 pp., £12.99, June,
“... Oliver Craske begins his biography of Ravi Shankar by telling an Indian parable. A blind man, stroking an elephant’s trunk, thinks he is holding a snake. Another blind man, running his hands along the animal’s leg, assumes he is touching a tree trunk; a third mistakes its tail for a rope. People’s response to Indian classical music is the same, Shankar told a press conference in London in 1966 ... ”