Update 2: if you go to the court date you cant go to traffic school, and it will be on your record, since this is my first ticket. Thats what the cop said at least, and all my friends who have gotten tickets have gotten theirs within the first week, only reason why I'm asking.ext. I got basically one of the stupidest tickets ever for going 6 miles over the speed limit (while someone next to me was probably going about 90)...the cop said it would come in the mail in 1-2 weeks. Well its been almost 5 weeks and STILL hasn't come, I've set money aside to pay the ticket (which is...
Ravi Shankar, the Indian sitar player whose sound had a major influence on The Beatles, has died at the age of 92. Besides working closely with George Harrison, he also collaborated with musicians as diverse as violinist Yehudi Menuhin and jazz saxophonist John Coltrane.
He gave up dancing in 1938 to study sitar playing under court musician Allauddin Khan. After finishing his studies in 1944, Shankar worked as a composer, creating the music for the Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray, and was music director of All India Radio, New Delhi, from 1949 to 1956.han was a rigorous teacher and Shankar had training on sitar and surbahar, learned ragas and the musical styles dhrupad, dhamar, and khyal, and was taught the techniques of the instruments rudra veena, rubab, and sursingar. He often studied with Khan's children Ali Akbar Khan and Annapurna Devi.