When I saw the Google Doodle for yesterday it got my attention and I wondered what was up with it.
Something Indian related? Well, I was on the right track. Dragging the cursor over the doodle revealed;
Here is a related story (click here.) Shankar died in 2012.
Ravi’s sitar was never my favorite instrument as it always sounded to me like it was an instrument that needed tuning. I always blamed Ravi and his sitar for having messed up many an otherwise perfectly good rock song (click here.) Hence, Ravi never made it passed by musical gateway. Guess that you could say he was on my shitar list.
On the other hand, his daughter can do no wrong: