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Pandit Ravi Shankar’s 96th birthday

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Google doodles to celebrate the man who brought the sitar sound to Western music.

Tom Sykes
Tom Sykes 

European Editor at Large

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Google today doodles to celebrate what would have been the 96th birthday of sitar legend Pandit Ravi Shankar, who died in 2012.

Ravi Shankar, as Google says in its explainer,

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Tom Sykes

Tom Sykes

European Editor at Large

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