Tat Ratna.
Answer the following questions:
1) When and where was Pandit Ravi Shankar born?
2) What service has Pandit Ravi Shankar done for the country?
3) Why did he leave his brother's troupe?
4) What title has Pandit Ravi Shankar earned?
5) Which tune was composed by him in the year 1945?
Answers
Answer:
Ans1) He born in 7 April 1920 in Varanasi
Ans2)Pandit Ravi Shankar, the brilliant sitarist, has done a signal service to the country by carrying the banner of Indian music across the world. He has done more than any other musician to arouse the interest of the westerners in Indian music, thus earning himself, the title, 'India's musical ambassador
Ans3) pandit Ravi Shankar left his brother's troupe so that he could learn the sitar under ustad allanaldin khan of maihar , as can be inferred from the line
Ans4) Ravi Shankar KBE (Bengali pronunciation born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, spelled Ravindra Shankar Chowdhury in Sanskrit; 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012), whose name is often preceded by the title Pandit (Master), was an Indian musician and a composer of Hindustani classical music
Ans5) Before it officially became the national anthem of India in 1950, "Jana Gana Mana" was heard in the 1945 film Hamrahi. It was also adopted as a school song of The Doon School, Dehradun in 1935.